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Scanning the Hypnoglyph

Author : Nathaniel Wallace
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004316213
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Scanning the Hypnoglyph written by Nathaniel Wallace and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 an even wider range of postmodern artwork. Scanning the Hypnoglyph first assesses the modernist framework wherein the sleeping subject typically enjoys firm psychic grounding. As postmodernism begins, subjective space is fragmented, the representation of sleep reflecting the trend. Among other topics, this book demonstrates how portrayals of dormant individuals can reveal imprints of the self. Gender issues are taken up as well. “Mainstream,” heterosexual representations are considered along with depictions of gay, lesbian, and androgynous sleepers.

Sleep and the Novel

Author : Michael Greaney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319752537
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Sleep and the Novel written by Michael Greaney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering the narrativization of sleep in Austen, the politicization of sleep in Dickens, the queering of sleep in Goncharov, the aestheticization of sleep in Proust, and the medicalization of sleep in contemporary fiction, it examines the ways in which novelists envision the figure of the sleeper, the meanings they discover in human sleep, and the values they attach to it. It argues that literary fiction harbours, on its margins, a “sleeping partner”, one that we can nickname the Schlafroman or “sleep-novel”, whose quiet absorption in the wordlessness and passivity of human slumber subtly complicates the imperatives of self-awareness and purposive action that traditionally govern the novel.

SLEEP IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES

Author : DAVID SANDUA
Publisher : David Sandua
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book SLEEP IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES written by DAVID SANDUA and published by David Sandua. This book was released on with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover in "Techniques to Improve Sleep" how to transform your restless nights into oases of rest and revitalization. This book will guide you through practical and accessible methods to overcome sleep disorders and embrace a deep night's rest. Learn how to tune into your body's natural rhythms, apply relaxation strategies, and optimize your sleep environment. With science-based advice, inspiring stories and personalized solutions, this book is your ally in achieving a healthier, more productive and happier life.

Sleep Fictions

Author : Hannah L. Huber
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252055004
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Sleep Fictions written by Hannah L. Huber and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary response to the dawning cult of wakefulness A turn-of-the-century influx of new technologies and the enormous impact of the electric light transformed not only individual sleeping habits but the ways American culture conceived and valued sleep. Hannah L. Huber analyzes the works of Henry James, Edith Wharton, Charles Chesnutt, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to examine the literary response to the period’s obsession with wakefulness. As these writers blurred the separation of public and private space, their characters faced exhaustion in a modern world that permeated every moment of their lives with artificial light, traffic noise, and the social pressure to remain active at all hours. The implacable cultural clock and constant stress over physical limitations had an even greater impact on marginalized figures. Huber pays particular attention to how these writers rebutted Americans’ confidence in the body’s ability to conquer sleep with vivid portraits of the devastating consequences of sleep disruption and deprivation. The author also provides a website and text visualization tool that offers readers an interdisciplinary, deconstructed analysis of the book’s primary texts. The website can be found at: https://sleepfictions.org/sleep/scalar/index

Hush Little Baby

Author : Gal Ventura
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228018382
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Hush Little Baby written by Gal Ventura and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century France became fixated on infant sleep. Pictures of sleeping babies proliferated in paintings, posters, and advertisements for cradles and toys. Childcare manuals and medical writings insisted on the importance of sleep as a measure of a child’s future health and vigour. Infant sleep was transformed from an unremarkable event to a precarious stage of life that demanded monitoring, support, and, above all, the constant presence and attention of mothers. Hush Little Baby uncovers the cultural, medical, and economic forces that came to shape Western ideas about infants’ sleeping patterns, rituals, and settings. By the mid-nineteenth century doctors were advising that infant sleep should be carefully controlled by caregivers according to medical guidelines, and that to do otherwise would risk compromising a child’s development. A sleeping baby was seen as the sign of a good mother – an idea that was reinforced through countless pictures of mothers watching vigilantly over their sleeping children, even as the reality of postpartum depression was known to doctors. The medical advice literature also helped to create a commercial infant industry, encouraging the production of clothing, bedding, cradles, and accessories designed to foster sleep, and providing new ways for families to demonstrate social status. In Hush Little Baby Gal Ventura shows how these images and ideas about babies’ sleep created many of the standards and expectations that keep parents awake today.

Red Britain

Author : Matthew Taunton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192549936
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Red Britain written by Matthew Taunton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and longevity of the cultural effects of the Russian Revolution. Drawing on new archival research and historical scholarship, this book explores the conceptual, discursive, and formal reverberations of the Bolshevik Revolution in British literature and culture. It provides new insight into canonical writers including Doris Lessing, George Orwell, Dorothy Richardson, H.G Wells, and Raymond Williams, as well bringing to attention a cast of less-studied writers, intellectuals, journalists, and visitors to the Soviet Union. Red Britain shows that the cultural resonances of the Russian Revolution are more far-reaching and various than has previously been acknowledged. Each of the five chapters takes as its subject one particular problem or debate, and investigates the ways in which it was politicised as a result of the Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of the Soviet state. The chapters focus on the idea of the future; numbers and arithmetic; law and justice; debates around agriculture and landowning; and finally orality, literacy, and religion. In all of these spheres, Red Britain shows how the medievalist, romantic, oral, pastoral, anarchic, and ethical emphases of English socialism clashed with, and were sometimes overwritten by, futurist, utilitarian, literate, urban, statist, and economistic ideas associated with the Bolshevik Revolution.

Making Strange

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 904202433X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Making Strange written by Herbert Grabes and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact, indispensable overview answers a vexed question: Why do so many works of modern and postmodern literature and art seem designed to appear 'strange', and how can they still cause pleasure in the beholder? To help overcome the initial barrier caused by this 'strangeness', the general reader is given an initial, non-technical description of the 'aesthetic of the strange' as it is experienced in the reading or viewing process. There follows a broad survey of modern and postmodern trends, illustrating their staggering variety and making plain the manifold methods and strategies adopted by writers and artists to 'make it strange'. The book closes with a systematic summary of the theoretical underpinnings of the 'aesthetic of the strange', focussing on the ways in which it differs from both the earlier 'aesthetic of the beautiful' and the 'aesthetic of the sublime'. It is made amply clear that the strangeness characteristic of modern and postmodern art has ushered in an entirely new, 'third' kind of aesthetic – one that has undergone further transformation over the past two decades. Beyond its usefulness as a practical introduction to the 'aesthetic of the strange', the present study also takes up the most recent, cutting-edge aspects of scholarly debate, while initiates are offered an original approach to the theoretical implications of this seminal phenomenon.

Literature and the Encounter with Immanence

Author : Brynnar Swenson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004311939
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Encounter with Immanence written by Brynnar Swenson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Literature and the Encounter with Immanence Brynnar Swenson collects nine original essays that approach the relationship between literature and immanence through methodologies grounded in the philosophy of Spinoza. One of Spinoza’s most provocative claims is a simple declaration of ignorance: “We do not know what a body can do.” A literary theory based on immanence privileges the ontological status of the text and the material act of reading. Rather than ask what a text means, the essays here ask what a text can do. Each essay documents a distinct literary and philosophical encounter with immanence and, as a result, opens up a space to read literature as one would read philosophy and vice versa.

Imaginary Films in Literature

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004306331
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Films in Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since cinema is a composite language, describing a movie is a complex challenge for critics and writers, and greatly differs from the ancient and successful genre of the ekphrasis, the literary description of a visual work of art. Imaginary Films in Literature deals with a specific and significant case within this broad category: the description of imaginary, non-existent movies – a practice that is more widespread than one might expect, especially in North American postmodern fiction. Along with theoretical contributions, the book includes the analyses of some case studies focusing on the borders between the visual and the literary, intermedial practices of hybridization, the limits of representation, and other related notions such as “memory”, “fragmentation”, “desire”, “genre”, “authorship”, and “censorship”.

Aesthesis and Perceptronium

Author : Alexander Wilson
Publisher : PostHumanities
ISBN 13 : 9781517906603
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Aesthesis and Perceptronium written by Alexander Wilson and published by PostHumanities. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new speculative ontology of aesthetics In Aesthesis and Perceptronium, Alexander Wilson presents a theory of materialist and posthumanist aesthetics founded on an original speculative ontology that addresses the interconnections of experience, cognition, organism, and matter. Entering the active fields of contemporary thought known as the new materialisms and realisms, Wilson argues for a rigorous redefining of the criteria that allow us to discriminate between those materials and objects where aesthesis (perception, cognition) takes place and those where it doesn't. Aesthesis and Perceptronium negotiates between indiscriminately pluralist views that attribute mentation to all things and eliminative views that deny the existence of mentation even in humans. By recasting aesthetic questions within the framework of "epistemaesthetics," which considers cognition and aesthetics as belonging to a single category that can neither be fully disentangled nor fully reduced to either of its terms, Wilson forges a theory of nonhuman experience that avoids this untenable dilemma. Through a novel consideration of the evolutionary origins of cognition and its extension in technological developments, the investigation culminates in a rigorous reevaluation of the status of matter, information, computation, causality, and time in terms of their logical and causal engagement with the activities of human and nonhuman agents.

The Philosophical Baroque

Author : Erik S. Roraback
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900433985X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Baroque written by Erik S. Roraback and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his pioneering study The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities, Erik S. Roraback argues that modern culture, contemplated over its four-century history, resembles nothing so much as the pearl famously described, by periodizers of old, as irregular, barroco. Reframing modernity as a multi-century baroque, Roraback steeps texts by Shakespeare, Henry James, Joyce, and Pynchon in systems theory and the ideas of philosophers of language and culture from Leibniz to such dynamic contemporaries as Luhmann, Benjamin, Blanchot, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, and Žižek. The resulting brew, high in intellectual caffeine, will be of value to all who take an interest in cultural modernity—indeed, all who recognize that “modernity” was (and remains) a congeries of competing aesthetic, economic, historical, ideological, philosophical, and political energies

The Heathen

Author : Jack London
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Heathen written by Jack London and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Heathen" is a short story by the American writer Jack London. It follows two people from different cultural and racial backgrounds who are the only ones left after their ship has encountered a storm in the Pacific. What kind of friendship emerges between them uncovers later in the story.

The Berkley Showcase

Author : Victoria Schochet
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425046975
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book The Berkley Showcase written by Victoria Schochet and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crafting Personal Shrines

Author : Carol Owen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781579908119
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Crafting Personal Shrines written by Carol Owen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Owen, a shrine maker for more than 20 years, offers easy instructions and inspiring photographs that will guide anyone through the process. The work begins with a basic frame for mounting treasured mementos. There are suggestions on embellishments to personalise the shrine and even ideas for possible objects to include. In addition to the author, eight renowned shrine artists provide hands-on information about how they create their distinctive structures and another two dozen experts offer insights into their creative practices. The vibrant gallery of work will spark anyone's imagination.

Day Million

Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330236065
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Day Million written by Frederik Pohl and published by Pan. This book was released on 1973 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Scarlet Plague

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780942036
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Scarlet Plague written by Jack London and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old man walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of life have established their own civilization and their own hierarchy in a savage world. Art, science, and all learning has been lost, and the young descendants of the healthy know nothing of the world that was—nothing but myths and make-believe. The old man is the only one who can convey the wonders of that bygone age, and the horrors of the plague that brought about its end. What future lies in store for the remnants of mankind can only be surmised—their ignorance, barbarity, and ruthlessness the only hopes they have. This cataclysmic tale remains a terrifying prophecy of the perils of globalization, which are all too pertinent today.

Have Space Suit, Will Travel

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416505490
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Have Space Suit, Will Travel written by Robert A. Heinlein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-02-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high school senior wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest, takes a last walk wearing "Oscar" before cashing him in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey.