• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Texturen der Zukunft : Traumdeutung und Roman in Früher Neuzeit (Rabelais, Sorel, Grimmelshausen) : Traumdeutung und Roman in Früher Neuzeit (Rabelais, Sorel, Grimmelshausen)
  • Beteiligte: Strohmaier, Paul
  • Erschienen: Brill, 2023
  • Erschienen in: Daphnis
  • Sprache: Nicht zu entscheiden
  • DOI: 10.1163/18796583-12340078
  • ISSN: 0300-693X; 1879-6583
  • Schlagwörter: Literature and Literary Theory
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article focuses on the relation between early-modern discourses on the interpretation of dreams, esp. prophetic dreams, and the novel. Rabelais’ <jats:italic>Tiers livre</jats:italic>, Sorel’s <jats:italic>Histoire comique de Francion</jats:italic> and Grimmelshausen’s <jats:italic>Simplicissimus Teutsch</jats:italic> all betray a detailed awareness of this type of prognostic knowledge, on whose epistemological claims, however, they launch severe, often comical attacks. Instead, they implicitly advocate for a different conception of the future, whose inherent unpredictability finds itself at odds with the idea of knowing it in advance (<jats:italic>pro-gnosis</jats:italic>). At the same time, this new temporality constitutes a chief characteristic of the genre of the novel itself.</jats:p>