9783319821658 - Philosophy Dreaming and the Literary Imagination

Bilder-Quelle: discount24.de - Sport-Freizeit

This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming. Drawing on perspectives from literary theory philosophy of mind and dream research this study investigates dreaming in relation to creativity and waking states of imagination such as writing and reading stories. Exploring the similarities and differences between the 'language' of dreams and the language of literature it analyses the strategies employed by writers to create a sense of dream in literary fiction as well as the genres most conducive to this endeavour. The book closes with three case studies focusing on texts by Kazuo Ishiguro Clare Boylan and John Banville to illustrate the diverse ways in which writers achieve to 'translate' the experience and 'language' of the dream.

Produktinformationen zuletzt aktualisiert am
05.05.2025 um 14:43 Uhr

Hersteller

EAN

9783319821658

MPN

ASIN

Produktgruppe