• Encounters of a Dreamy Kind: Dreams as Spaces for Intergenerational Play and Healing in Dutch Children's Literature

    Author(s):
    Vanessa Joosen (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Group(s):
    Children's literature and digital humanities
    Subject(s):
    Children's stories
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    children's literature, Dutch literature
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/q72f-2d79
    Abstract:
    Dreams can function in children’s books as a means to connect young characters and older figures in the story. This article presents three methods to study intergenerational encounters in and through dreams in a selection of contemporary Dutch children’s books. First, a digital analysis of a corpus of 81 books shows that the older the characters are, the less they are described as dreaming. A close reading of intergenerational dreams lays bare, amongst others, the associations of dreaming with healing and death. Finally, a reader response study reveals that young children already understand some dream mechanisms and that older readers sometimes may draw on Freudian theory to interpret dreams, but that some also resist that.
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    Publisher:
    Brill
    Pub. Date:
    2023
    Book Title:
    Traum and Träumen in Kinder- und Jugendmedien: Intermediale und transdisziplinäre Analysen
    Author/Editor:
    Iris Schäfer
    Page Range:
    35 - 50
    ISBN:
    978-3-7705-6748-5
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    7 months ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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