A comprehensive analysis of one of American television's most frequently utilised tropes, the dream. Locating its primary function as narrative, the author uses examples from American sitcoms and dramatic programs, analysing the narrative functions of dreams using, as its frame,…
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Machine Dreaming and Consciousness is the first book to discuss the questions raised by the advent of machine dreaming. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems meeting criteria of primary and self-reflexive consciousness are often utilized to extend the human interface, creating wa…
Dream, fantasy, and visual art in Roman elegy
by Scioli, Emma
fromWisconsin studies in classics
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Dream, fantasy, and visual art in Roman elegy
by Scioli, Emma
fromWisconsin studies in classics
0
Type: Book
The elegists, ancient Rome{u0092}s most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Dream, Fantasy, and Visual Art in Roman Elegy examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics o…
"The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The write…
This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed "integral" by thinkers from Aurobindo to Wilber, Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers consider dreams a…
"In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the rise of psychoanalytic interpretation as the dominant mode of studying dreams, a…
In this volume, Deirdre Barrett brings together the study of dreams and the psychology of trauma. She has called on a distinguished group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers - among them Rosalind Cartwright, Robert J. Lifton, and Oliver Sacks - to consider how tr…
In this volume, Deirdre Barrett brings together the study of dreams and the psychology of trauma. She has called on a distinguished group of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers - among them Rosalind Cartwright, Robert J. Lifton, and Oliver Sacks - to consider how tr…
