| Abstract [eng] |
This thesis examines the aesthetics of the dream in Djuna Barnes’s “Nightwood” (1936), aiming to determine how it constructs a literary configuration of experienced reality. The analysis draws on surrealist ideas and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological concepts of dream aesthetics and embodied perception to explore how visuality and intersubjective relationships between characters contribute to the formation of dream aesthetics in the novel. The study reveals that dream aesthetics in “Nightwood” generate a multi-layered sensory space in which the boundaries between dream and wakefulness, the rational and the irrational, subject and object begin to dissolve. Reality is rendered through a bodily, often disorienting state of consciousness. This research contributes to the field of modernist literary studies by proposing dream aesthetics as a strategy of meaning-making that interweaves poetics, embodiment, and visuality. |
