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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818293403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, c1999
• ISBN: 0-19-773890-7; 1-280-47144-1; 0-19-535259-9; 1-4237-6016-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Altri autori (Persone): ShulmanDavid Dean <1949->; StroumsaGuy G
• Disciplina: 135/.3; 154.6309; 291.4
• Soggetti: Dreams - Cross-cultural studies; Dreams - History; Dream interpretation - Cross-cultural studies; Dream interpretation - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers originally presented at a workshop held at the Jagdschloss Hubertusstock, in Markt Brandenburg, in September 1995.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; I: China and India; 2. Dreams of Interpretation in Early Chinese Historical and Philosophical Writings; 3. Dreaming the Self in South India; 4. The Dreams and Dramas of a Jealous Hindu Queen; II: Amerindia; 5. Sharing and Interpreting Dreams in Amerindian Nations; 6. Mythic Dreams and Double Voicing; III: Mediterranean: Classical and Late Antiquity; 7. Dream Interpretation in a Prosperous Age?: Artemidorus, the Greek Interpreter of Dreams; 8. On the Mantic Meaning of Incestuous Dreams; 9. Idolum and Imago: Roman Dreams and Dream Theories; 10. Dreams and Visions in Early Christian Discourse11. Communication with the Dead in Jewish Dream Culture; IV: Middle Ages and Modern West; 12. Astral Dreams in Judaism: Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries; 13. Dreaming Analyzed and Recorded: Dreams in the World of Medieval ; Islam; 14. The Liminality and Centrality of Dreams in the Medieval West; 15. Engendering Dreams: The Dreams of Adam and Eve in Milton's Paradise Lost; 16. The Cultural Index of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.