眠りと覚醒：境界の文学 At the Borders of Sleep : On Liminal Literature

Schwenger, Peter

University of Minnesota Press（2012/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 176 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780816679751
• DDC分類 809.933561

基本説明

This is a unique exploration of the connections between literature and the liminal states between waking and sleeping - from falling asleep and waking up, to drowsiness and insomnia, to states in which sleeping and waking mix.

Full Description

At the Borders of Sleep is a unique exploration of the connections between literature and the liminal states between waking and sleeping-from falling asleep and waking up, to drowsiness and insomnia, to states in which sleeping and waking mix. 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.

While examining literary representations of the various states between waking and sleeping, At the Borders of Sleep also analyzes how writers and readers alike draw on and enter into these states. To do so 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. A final chapter focuses on literature that blurs dream and waking life, giving special attention to experimental writing.

Ultimately arguing that, taking place on the edges of consciousness, both the reading and writing of literature are liminal experiences, At the Borders of Sleep suggests new ways to think about the nature of literature and consciousness.

Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

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 Wakeup Call

Interminable Waking

4. Sleepwaking

Disquiet

The Subdrama of Writing

Experiment, Experience

Notes

Bibliography

Index