THE LANGUAGE OF DREAM REPORTS AND DOSTOEVSKY'S THE DOUBLE

Non-narrative intervals use different grammar from that of regular, cohesive narratives. Descriptive contexts that report on sensory input include descriptions of photographs, paintings, and movie frames, and also children's narratives, narratives from a child's point of view, descriptions of scenes from memory, and dream reports. Most dreams are presented by their narrators as gaze contexts, although some narrators choose to present their dreams as more cohesive texts. Here, Perelmutter discusses how the cognitive model of dreams is employed for stylistic purposes in Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's novella The Double.