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Dream cultures : explorations in the comparative history of dreaming / edited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa

Published
New York : Oxford University Press, [1999]
Copyright Date
©1999
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 325 pages)
Additional Creators
Shulman, David Dean, 1949- and Stroumsa, Guy G.
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Contents
Dreams of interpretation in early Chinese historical and philosophical writings / Wai-yee Li -- Dreaming the self in South India / David Shulman -- The dreams and dramas of a jealous Hindu queen / Wendy Doniger -- Sharing and interpreting dreams in Amerindian nations / Barbara Tedlock -- Mythic dreams and double voicing / Dennis Tedlock -- Dream interpretation in a prosperous age? Artemidorus, the Greek interpreter of dreams / Christine Walde -- On the mantle meaning of incestuous dreams / Cristiano Grottanelli -- Idolum and imago : Roman dreams and dream theories / Hubert Cancik -- Dreams and visions in early Christian discourse / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Communication with the dead in Jewish dream culture / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- Astral dreams in Judaism : twelfth to fourteenth centuries / Moshe Idel -- Dreaming analyzed and recorded : dreams in the world of medieval Islam / Sara Sviri -- The liminality and centrality of dreams in the medieval west / Jean-Claude Schmitt -- Engendering dreams : the dreams of Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost / Aleida Assmann -- The cultural index of Freud's Interpretation of dreams / Stéphane Moses.
Summary
This work offers a comparative cross-cultural history of dreams. The authors examine a range of texts concerning dreams, from a variety of religious contexts (including China, the Americas and Greek and Roman antiquity) to explore the ways in which different cultures experience the world of dreams.
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9780195123364 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0195123360 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780195352597 (electronic bk.)
0195352599 (electronic bk.)
1280471441
9781280471445
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Note
Papers originally presented at a workshop held at the Jagdschloss Hubertusstock, in Markt Brandenburg, in September 1995.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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