عنوان

At the borders of sleep :

(Number (ISBN

0816679754 (hc : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0816679762 (pb : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780816679751 (hc : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780816679768 (pb : alk. paper)

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b415906

Title Proper

At the borders of sleep :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

on liminal literature /

First Statement of Responsibility

Peter Schwenger

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Minneapolis, MN :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Minnesota Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2012

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 167 p. ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

At the Borders of Sleep is a unique exploration of the connections between literature and the liminal states between waking and sleeping. Delving into philosophy as well as literature, Peter Schwenger investigates the threshold between waking and sleeping as an important and productive state between the forced march of rational thought and the oblivion of unconsciousness

Text of Note

While examining literary representations of the various states between waking and sleeping, At the Borders of Sleep also analyzes how writers and readers draw on and enter these states. Schwenger reads a wide range of authors for whom the borders of sleep are crucial, including Marcel-Proust, Stephen King, Paul Valéry, Fernando Pessoa, Franz Kafka, Giorgio de Chirico, Virginia Woolf, Philippe Sollers, and Robert Irwin. Considering drowsiness, insomnia, and waking up, he looks at such subjects as the hypnagogic state, the experience of reading and why it is different from full consciousness, the relationships between insomnia and writing and why insomnia is often a source of creative insight, and the persistence of liminal elements in waking thought. Ultimately arguing that both the reading and writing of literature are liminal experiences, taking place on the edges of consciousness, At the Borders of Sleep suggests new ways to think about the nature of literature and consciousness. Book jacket

Consciousness

Liminality

Literature-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc

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Edition

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Book number

Schwenger, Peter,1942-

Date of Transaction

20130124113321.0

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[Book]

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