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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwenger, Peter, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Liminality.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 167 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-162) and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4853-4

0-8166-8179-1

OCLC:

849935283