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Scanning the hypnoglyph : sleep in modernist and postmodern representation /

Nathaniel Wallace's Scanning the Hypnoglyph chronicles a contemporary genre that exploits sleep's evocative dimensions. While dreams, sleeping nudes, and other facets of the dormant state were popular with artists of the early twentieth century (and long before), sleep experiences have giv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallace, Nathaniel Owen, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]
Colección:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 46.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1: Introduction: From Hypnos to the Hypnoglyph; Formatting the Hypnoglyph; Sleep and Narrative Resistance; Sleep and Cognitive Study; The Dream, Textual Servant; Fighting Sleep: Christian Directory X2 (Persons and Baxter), Descartes's Cogito, and Pascal; Baudelairean and Other Beginnings; Sleep amid Mid-nineteenth Century Migrations of Religious Discourse; 2: A Life in the Day of a Hypnoglyph: Vertical Slumber and Other Typicalities.
  • Elizabeth Bishop's "Sleeping Standing Up"Robert Lowell's "Man and Wife"; Vincent Desiderio's The Sleeping Family; Vincent Desiderio's The Intepretation of Color; 3: The Size of Sleep, Sizing the Self; Richard Wilbur's "Walking to Sleep"; Anselm Kiefer's The Rose Gives Honey to the Bees (Dat Rosa Mel Apibus); Fran Gardner's No Need for Wings; Fran Gardner's Orienting the Self; David Yaghjian's Sleep; 4: Latter-Day Ariadnes: From Hypnoglyph to Somnoscript; Anne Sexton's "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)"; Marguerite Duras's The Malady of Death (La maladie de la mort).
  • Yasunari Kawabata's "House of the Sleeping Beauties"Anselm Kiefer's Brunnhilde Sleeps; 5: Alternate Endymions, Other Ariadnes; Gustav Courbet's Sleep (The Two Friends); The Plurisexual Marcel Proust; The Queer Schlaraffenland of Paul Cadmus; Signorelli's Afterlife: Freud to Lacan; Andy Warhol's Sleep; Marguerite Duras's Blue Eyes Black Hair (Les yeux bleus cheveux noirs); Mark Tansey's Utopic; Vincent Desiderio's Couple; 6: Conclusion: The Hypnoglyph and the Misclosure of the Postmodern; Bibliography; Index.