Encounters of a Dreamy Kind: Dreams as Spaces for Intergenerational Play and Healing in Dutch Childrenâs Literature

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Encounters of a Dreamy Kind: Dreams as Spaces for Intergenerational Play and Healing in Dutch Childrenâs Literature

In: Traum und TrÃ¤umen in Kinder- und Jugendmedien

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Vanessa Joosen

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Pages:: 35â49

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846767481_003

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Dreams can function in childrenâs 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 childrenâs 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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Traum und TrÃ¤umen in Kinder- und Jugendmedien

Intermediale und transdisziplinÃ¤re Analysen

Series:Â Traum â Wissen â ErzÃ¤hlen, Volume: 15

Cover Traum und TrÃ¤umen in Kinder- und Jugendmedien

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Publisher:: Brill | Fink

Print Publication Date:: 14 Mar 2023

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