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At the Borders of Sleep : On Liminal Literature /

'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 literar...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Schwenger, Peter, 1942-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Toward sleep. Writing hypnagogia ; The obbligato effect ; Falling asleep while reading ; Agatha: or, sleep
  • Sleepless. Night ; The insomniac writer ; Night watch
  • Leaving sleep. Waking up awry ; Lacan's wake-up call ; Interminable waking
  • Sleepwaking. Disquiet ; The subdrama of writing ; Experiment, experience.