Literary criticism as dream analysis
Subtitle: essays on renaissance and modern writers
By: Jeanne Addison Roberts
Publisher: American Literary Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781934696309
Subjects: Dream interpretation; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: I. Approach:  In praise of criticism; title: Literary criticism as dream analysis; title: Bubbles from the canon's mouth; title: The universal Shakespeare?; title: II. Visions and revisions:  Making a woman and other institutionalized diversions; title: Have women in the Southeast had a renaissance?; title: Feminist murder: Amanda Cross reinvents womanhood; title: Margaret Cavendish plays with Shakespeare; title: Women edit Shakespeare; title: III. Generic forms:  Anxiety and influence: Milton, Ovid, and Shakespeare; title: Strategies of delay in Shakespeare: What the Much Ado is really about; title: The Merry Wives of Windsor as a Hallowe'en play; title: The Merry Wives: Suitably shallow, but neither simple nor slender; title: Revenge tragedy and Elizabeth Cary's Mariam; title: IV. Men:  John Ford's passionate abstractions; title: Laughter and the law: Shakespeare's comic constables; title: Shakespeare's Helens and the reluctant Bertram; title: Review essay: The Windsor Falstaff; title: Crises of male self-definition in The Two Noble Kinsmen; title: V. Animals and the green world:  The dreadful Sagittary and other Shakespearean nightmares; title: Comrade to the wolf and owl; title: "Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life...?"; title: Horses and hermaphrodites: Metamorphoses in The Taming of the Shrew; title: Animals as agents of revelation: the horizontalizing of the chain of being in Shakespeare's comedies; title: Shakespeare's forests and trees; title: Shakespeare's green world revisited; title: VI. Women:  Facets of the female in Shakespeare's plays; title: Birth traumas in Shakespeare; title: Shades of the triple Hecate in Shakespeare; title: The crone in English renaissance drama; title: Shakespeare's comic heroines and the superwomen of midcentury; title: Sex and the female tragic hero; title: Feminist interpretations of Shakespeare; title: Are Shakespeare's women unruly?; title: Endnotes; title: Acknowledgments.