{"product_id":"where-was-it-before-the-dream-time-loops-and-interpretation-paperback","title":"Where Was It Before the Dream?: Time Loops and Interpretation - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Wargo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about a mind-bending new way of interpreting imaginative literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriters often draw on dreams for their inspiration, and those dreams are often precognitive, foreshadowing upheavals in the writer's future. It means that literature may often be prophetic, and that standard critical approaches focused solely on an author's prior influences or present life context are inadequate to fully understand the miracle of literary creation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis exercise in \"psychic deconstruction\" examines the works and lives of six imaginative (and in most cases, dream-inspired) writers: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, J. R. R. Tolkien, Stanislaw Lem, Joan Lindsay, and Franz Kafka. Wargo shows that some of their greatest masterpieces-Coleridge's \u003cem\u003eKubla Khan\u003c\/em\u003e and Tolkien's \u003cem\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/em\u003e, for instance, as well as Kafka's \u003cem\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Trial\u003c\/em\u003e and Lindsay's beloved Australian classic, \u003cem\u003ePicnic at Hanging Rock\u003c\/em\u003e-were premonitions of how the author would look back upon their work or career in hindsight: with longing, curiosity, regret, or often some mix of emotions. The most dazzling and original inventions of the literary imagination, from the monster in Shelley's \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e to the magical beings and objects of Middle Earth or the inscrutable intelligences in Lem's novels about alien contact, like \u003cem\u003eSolaris\u003c\/em\u003e, are really strange, biographical time loops preserved in amber.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 338\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45286897909804,"sku":"9798992405224","price":22.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/Z7dp30GK4I9798992405224.webp?v=1771080864","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/where-was-it-before-the-dream-time-loops-and-interpretation-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}