At the borders of sleep [[electronic resource] ] : on liminal literature / / Peter Schwenger

• Autore: Schwenger Peter <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 167 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.933561
• Soggetto topico: Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Liminality; Consciousness
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-162) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Toward Sleep -- Writing Hypnagogia -- The Obbligato Effect -- Falling Asleep While Reading -- Agatha: Or, Sleep -- 2. Sleepless -- Night -- The Insomniac Writer -- Night Watch -- 3. Leaving Sleep -- Waking Up Awry -- Lacan's Wake-Up Call -- Interminable Waking -- 4. Sleepwaking -- Disquiet -- The Subdrama of Writing -- Experiment, Experience -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 'At the Borders of Sleep' investigates a liminal or threshold state between two fundamental modes of human consciousness, the waking state and the sleeping one - which are not as distinct from one another as is commonly thought. Liminal states are so subtle and evanescent that only literary depictions can do them justice; and so literature, along with philosophy and some science, has generated this book's argument. That argument is then turned back upon literature to show how both reading and writing are liminal experiences, taking place at the edges of conscious thought.
• Titolo autorizzato: At the borders of sleep
• ISBN: 1-4529-4853-4; 0-8166-8179-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823512403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II