At the Borders of Sleep : On Liminal Literature /

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'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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwenger, Peter, 1942-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Bewusstsein
Grenzsituation
Schlaf
Literatur
Literature > Theory, etc.
Liminality.
Consciousness.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Conscience.
Liminalite.
Litterature > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Consciousness
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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