Scanning the hypnoglyph : : sleep in modernist and postmodern representation / / by Nathaniel Wallace.

Nathaniel Wallace’s Scanning the Hypnoglyph chronicles a contemporary genre that exploits sleep’s evocative dimensions. While dreams, sleeping nudes, and other facets of the dormant state were popular with artists of the early twentieth century (and long before), sleep experiences have given rise to...

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Superior document:Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 46
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; Volume 46.
Physical Description:1 online resource (369 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: From Hypnos to the Hypnoglyph
  • A Life in the Day of a Hypnoglyph: Vertical Slumber and Other Typicalities
  • The Size of Sleep, Sizing the Self
  • Latter-Day Ariadnes: From Hypnoglyph to Somnoscript
  • Alternate Endymions, Other Ariadnes
  • Conclusion: The Hypnoglyph and the Misclosure of the Postmodern
  • Bibliography
  • Index.