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The romantic dream : Wordsworth and the poetics of the unconscious

Author: Douglas B Wilson
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Although criticism on the medieval and Renaissance dream abounds, a strange lacuna exists in the critical literature of dream in the English Romantics. Every major Romantic poet relied frequently and explicitly on dream imagery, and Romantic poems conduct a long discussion about the meaning, power, value, and provenance of dreams. Douglas B. Wilson's book traces the wide web of connections that the Romantics wove  Read more...
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Named Person: William Wordsworth; William Wordsworth; William (Schriftsteller) Wordsworth
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas B Wilson
ISBN: 0803247613 9780803247611
OCLC Number: 26261475
Description: xx, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Dream and the uncanny --
In dreams begin communities --
Dream displacement : projecting the abandoned woman --
Carnage and its consequences : reveries of power --
The dream prospect : imagination regained --
Wordsworth's self-analysis : the Arab dream
Responsibility: Douglas B. Wilson.
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Although criticism on the medieval and Renaissance dream abounds, a strange lacuna exists in the critical literature of dream in the English Romantics. Every major Romantic poet relied frequently and explicitly on dream imagery, and Romantic poems conduct a long discussion about the meaning, power, value, and provenance of dreams. Douglas B. Wilson's book traces the wide web of connections that the Romantics wove between dreams and other expressions of consciousness: sensation, emotions, illusions, creativity, personality, and memory. Situating his study of the Wordsworthian dream between ancient interpretation and Freudian interpretation, Wilson gains a new perspective on the oneiric moment of Romanticism while liberating it from a narrowly psychoanalytic reading. Wordsworth embodies virtually all of the dream theory of his time, thus making him the perfect object of Wilson's multiple approaches to dream activity as poetic creation. - Back cover.

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