Nightmare—From Literary Experiments to Cultural Project

Intertwining literary criticism, cultural research, and psychological experience, this subtle study has two aims: to examine the nightmare as a mental state using literary texts, and to identify the contributions that "nightmarology" can make to the study of literature. Khapeaeva (modern languages, Georgia Institute of Technology) closely analyzes the works of Gogol and Dostoevsky as well as Charles Robert Maturin, Thomas Mann, H.P. Lovecraft, and Victor Pelevin. The book was originally published in Russian and is here made available in English, translated by Rosie Tweddle and supported by the Mikhail Prokhorov Founcation TRANSCRIPT Programme to Support Translations of Russian literature. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dina Khapaeva (Professor and Chair, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology), is the author of four monographs (including Nouveau portrait de la Russie: essais sur la societe gothique, translated from Russian by Nina Kehayan, Eds. de l’Aube, 2012 forthcoming) and has published more than 50 articles concerning historical memory, intellectual history, the history of culture and literary criticism.