Poetics of Dreams: Cultural/Narrative Meaning of the Dream-Chronotope in Calderon de la Barca’s La vida es sueño and Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame.”
Abstract
Sleep and dream visions as revelations, narrative devices, signs of illness, and aesthetic-artistic formulae alongside their interpretations, are common experiences shared by all cultures throughout the ages. They exhibit an astonishing variety of contexts and meanings. Rather than abstract time, with its mathematical indistinctness, a dialectical concreteness of signs and symbols in culture determines the specificity and character of dream experience and its complex hermeneutic.