Dream islands within the fabric of poetic consciousness – reverie, dream and dreamlikeness in Robert Walser’s Berlin novels 'Geschwister Tanner' and 'Jakob von Gunten'
Arrow@dit October 27, 2015 Dagmar Drabent
This dissertation reconstructs firstly the dreamlikeness which determines Walser’s two Berlin novels Geschwister Tanner and Jakob von Gunten, and secondly a poetology of the denoted dream texts (representations of dreams) within these novels. The first part of this study is dedicated to the exploration of the phenomenon of dreamlikeness by establishing a matrix which is determined by the...