Representations of dreams – no matter if factual or fictional – are influenced
not only by cultural patterns but also by the specific opportunities
offered and the specific challenges posed by the genre or medium
which was chosen for them. The essays in the two volumes of this
publication consider, in detailed case studies, variants of factual dream
reports and fictional dreams in epic poems, dream visions, satires, the
Chinese genre zhiguai, novels, lyrical poems, prose poems, dramas,
dream plays, Japanese mugen no plays, radio plays, paintings, comics,
films, video games, operas, and instrumental music. The authors and
artists discussed include Artemidorus, Bachmann, Baudelaire, Bergman,
Berlioz, Bertrand, Boulanger, Borchert, Burroughs, Calderón,
Chaucer, de Chirico, Christine de Pizan, Eich, Gan Bao, Garnier,
Handke, A. Hardy, Heine, Hitchcock, Homer, Jean Paul, Liu Xiang,
Kurosawa, Levi, Liszt, Magritte, Matisse, Murnau, Nabokov, Redon,
J. Renoir, Reverdy, Rimbaud, Quevedo, Saariaho, Sebald, Spiegelman,
Swedenborg, Strindberg, Trakl, Valmiki, Vermeer, Virgil, R. Wagner,
von Wysocki, Zeami, and many others.