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The Poetics of Sleep

Author : Simon Wortham
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441169628
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Sleep written by Simon Wortham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout philosophy? What is at issue in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm of physiological study (as in Kant, Freud and Bergson), in favour of promoting the critical investigation of dreams and dreaming as a key indicator of modernity? Does philosophy entail a certain repression of the poetics of sleep in all its conceptual impossibility? Through a series of engagements with key thinkers in modern European philosophy, this book rearticulates a poetics of sleep at the heart of some of its seminal texts. From the problematic yet instructive status of a Kantian discourse on sleep to the conceptual contradictions inherent in psychoanalytic thought and the rich possibilities of thinking 'sleep' in the writings of Bergson, Blanchot and Nancy, the book's aim is to dredge the remains of sleep - not to bring its secrets to the surface of waking life, but instead to draw closer to what falls under or away in thinking and writing 'sleep'.

Assembling the Morrow

Author : Sandra Huber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889229105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Assembling the Morrow written by Sandra Huber and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though we spend a third of our lives asleep, the behaviour remains largely a mystery. Sandra Huber's first book, Assembling the Morrow: A Poetics of Sleep, assumes that any attempt to solve this mystery requires new modes of experimentation. What happens when the line of a Berger's wave (an electroencephalography recording of brainwaves in sleep) turns into a line of poetry, an act of focused consciousness? The earliest readings of the sleeping brain, captured by EEGs in the 1930s, revealed that sleep is as active and lively as its daytime counterpart, not simply a passive state that naturally ensues when wakefulness ceases. Sleep not only assimilates the day that's passed, but also looks forward, assembling what's to come. To engage this concept, Huber sculpts a long poem onto the neural oscillations of sleep, in order to explore what is beneath them both: the conscious organism, the writer, and the written. In the field of the poem, where sleep is traditionally a metaphor for death, the idea that to be awake is to be alive is put to the test in a new kind of writing that invites a new kind of being. Prefaced by a discussion on poetry, the science of sleep, and those who have sought a language of consciousness - from Hans Berger to Gertrude Stein - Assembling the Morrow proposes that entering the mystery of sleep requires a radical reframing of our biases on what it means to be conscious.

Sleeping with the Dictionary

Author : Harryette Mullen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520927834
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Sleeping with the Dictionary written by Harryette Mullen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harryette Mullen's fifth poetry collection, Sleeping with the Dictionary, is the abecedarian offspring of her collaboration with two of the poet's most seductive writing partners, Roget's Thesaurus and The American Heritage Dictionary. In her ménage à trois with these faithful companions, the poet is aware that while Roget seems obsessed with categories and hierarchies, the American Heritage, whatever its faults, was compiled with the assistance of a democratic usage panel that included black poets Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps, as well as feminist author and editor Gloria Steinem. With its arbitrary yet determinant alphabetical arrangement, its gleeful pursuit of the ludic pleasure of word games (acrostic, anagram, homophone, parody, pun), as well as its reflections on the politics of language and dialect, Mullen's work is serious play. A number of the poems are inspired or influenced by a technique of the international literary avant-garde group Oulipo, a dictionary game called S+7 or N+7. This method of textual transformation--which is used to compose nonsensical travesties reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"--also creates a kind of automatic poetic discourse. Mullen's parodies reconceive the African American's relation to the English language and Anglophone writing, through textual reproduction, recombining the genetic structure of texts from the Shakespearean sonnet and the fairy tale to airline safety instructions and unsolicited mail. The poet admits to being "licked all over by the English tongue," and the title of this book may remind readers that an intimate partner who also gives language lessons is called, euphemistically, a "pillow dictionary."

The Poetics of Sleep

Author : Simon Wortham
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441124764
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Sleep written by Simon Wortham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout philosophy? What is at issue in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm of physiological study (as in Kant, Freud and Bergson), in favour of promoting the critical investigation of dreams and dreaming as a key indicator of modernity? Does philosophy entail a certain repression of the poetics of sleep in all its conceptual impossibility? Through a series of engagements with key thinkers in modern European philosophy, this book rearticulates a poetics of sleep at the heart of some of its seminal texts. From the problematic yet instructive status of a Kantian discourse on sleep to the conceptual contradictions inherent in psychoanalytic thought and the rich possibilities of thinking 'sleep' in the writings of Bergson, Blanchot and Nancy, the book's aim is to dredge the remains of sleep - not to bring its secrets to the surface of waking life, but instead to draw closer to what falls under or away in thinking and writing 'sleep'.

Sleep Demons

Author : Bill Hayes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656097X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Sleep Demons written by Bill Hayes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lovely weave of memory and science, great characters and compassionate humor” from the author of Sweat: A History of Exercise (Anne Lamott). We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysteries—eluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we don’t, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our conscious volition. Delving into the mysteries of his own sleep patterns, Bill Hayes marvels, “I have come to see that sleep itself tells a story.” An acclaimed journalist and memoirist—and partner of the late neurologist Oliver Sacks—Hayes has been plagued by insomnia his entire life. The science and mythology of sleep and sleeplessness form the backbone to Hayes’s narrative of his personal battles with sleep and how they colored his waking life, as he threads stories of fugitive sleep through memories of growing up in the closet, coming out to his Irish Catholic family, watching his friends fall ill during the early years of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, and finding a lover. An erudite blend of science and personal narrative, Sleep Demons offers a poignant introduction to the topics for which Hayes has since become famous, including art, eros, city life, the history of medical science, and queer identity. “This intimate and beautifully written book brings scientific research alive in a heartfelt and deeply personal narrative.” —The Guardian “Memoir, history, and science come together and apart again in a book that reads very much like a dream.” —Out magazine

Broken Sleep

Author : Wayne Emerson Tidwell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595609093
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Broken Sleep written by Wayne Emerson Tidwell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wayne E. Tidwell writes poetry from one of the deepest sometimes darkest places you've ever seen. A poetic journey, seen through the eyes of one of the most talented poets of our time. These poems really make you feel, and sometimes take you to a place so deep you never want to return. A little bit of everything, from sleep and dreams to family and alcoholism, these poems have it all. A must read for the poetry readers of the world. One Love.

The Fall of Sleep

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823231194
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Sleep written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul. In an extraordinary theoretical investigation written with lyric intensity, The Fall of Sleep puts an end to this neglect by providing a deft yet rigorous philosophy of sleep. What does it mean to "fall" asleep? Might there exist something like a "reason" of sleep, a reason at work in its own form or modality, a modality of being in oneself, of return to oneself, without the waking "self" that distinguishes "I" from "you" and from the world? What reason might exist in that absence of ego, appearance, and intention, in an abandon thanks to which one is emptied out into a non-place shared by everyone? Sleep attests to something like an equality of all that exists in the rhythm of the world. With sleep, victory is constantly renewed over the fear of night, an a confidence that we will wake with the return of day, in a return to self, to us--though to a self, an us, that is each day different, unforeseen, without any warning given in advance. To seek anew the meaning stirring in the supposed loss of meaning, of consciousness, and of control that occurs in sleep is not to reclaim some meaning already familiar in philosophy, religion, progressivism, or any other -ism. It is instead to open anew a source that is not the source of a meaning but that makes up the nature proper to meaning, its truth: opening, gushing forth, infinity. This beautiful, profound meditation on sleep is a unique work in the history of phenomenology--a lyrical phenomenology of what can have no phenomenology, since sleep shows itself to the waking observer, the subject of phenomenology, only as disappearance and concealment.

Sleep-book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sleep-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Insomniac

Author : Gayle Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246306
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Insomniac written by Gayle Greene and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-03-10 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the causes, effects, treatment options, and research in the field of insomnia.

Other Life

Author : Ed Luker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913642297
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Other Life written by Ed Luker and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ed Luker's Other Life is an acerbic and intelligent collection with heaps of personality. Luker's poems show an interest in the inner riddles of poetic form coupled with desperate attempts to navigate the insane demands of modern life, including £3 pound sausage rolls, yoga and the plains of Calabria. These complicated pressures push Luker into riotous protest. Other Life pushes against a certain shyness in contemporary poetry, replacing it with megalomaniac verve and sparkle.

Poussin and the Poetics of Painting

Author : Jonathan Unglaub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521833677
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Poussin and the Poetics of Painting written by Jonathan Unglaub and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time, and especially through his response to the work of Torquato Tasso. Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. Poussin does not merely illustrate Tasso's verse, but cultivates pictorial means to refashion the poet's metaphors of desire. Offering new interpretations of these works, this book also investigates Poussin's larger literary culture and how this context illuminates the artist's response to contemporary poetic texts, especially in his mythological paintings.

Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetry (p)

Author :
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610752442
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetry (p) written by and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?

Author : Seo-Young Chu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674059220
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? written by Seo-Young Chu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In culture and scholarship, science-fictional worlds are perceived as unrealistic and altogether imaginary. Seo-Young Chu offers a bold challenge to this perception of the genre, arguing instead that science fiction is a form of “high-intensity realism” capable of representing non-imaginary objects that elude more traditional, “realist” modes of representation. Powered by lyric forces that allow it to transcend the dichotomy between the literal and the figurative, science fiction has the capacity to accommodate objects of representation that are themselves neither entirely figurative nor entirely literal in nature. Chu explores the globalized world, cyberspace, war trauma, the Korean concept of han, and the rights of robots, all as referents for which she locates science-fictional representations in poems, novels, music, films, visual pieces, and other works ranging within and without previous demarcations of the science fiction genre. In showing the divide between realism and science fiction to be illusory, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? sheds new light on the value of science fiction as an aesthetic and philosophical resource—one that matters more and more as our everyday realities grow increasingly resistant to straightforward representation.

The Annotated Big Sleep

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 080416889X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Annotated Big Sleep written by Raymond Chandler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleep features hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library. A masterpiece of noir, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep helped to define a genre. Today it remains one of the most celebrated and stylish novels of the twentieth century. This comprehensive, annotated edition offers a fascinating look behind the scenes of the novel, bringing the gritty and seductive world of Chandler's iconic private eye Philip Marlowe to life. The Annotated Big Sleep solidifies the novel’s position as one of the great works of American fiction and will surprise and enthrall Chandler’s biggest fans. Including: -Personal letters and source texts -The historical context of Chandler’s Los Angeles, including maps and images -Film stills and art from the early pulps -An analysis of class, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the novel

The Silent Unwinding

Author : Jackie Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783529612
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Silent Unwinding written by Jackie Morris and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a companion to The Unwinding. It contains within images that tell stories, but it reads like a silent film. Each of the images is an invitation to dream.The tales of this silent edition are not pinned to the page by words. Each dreamer will find their own path, perhaps a new one each time they return.The illustrations are intended to inspire: there is space to draw and write, to paint dreams and stories, thoughts and verse, in new worlds, wherever your pen may guide you.

Thinking on Thresholds

Author : Subha Mukherji
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 085728665X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Thinking on Thresholds written by Subha Mukherji and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a combination of case studies and theoretical investigations, the essays in this book address the imaginative power of the threshold as a productive space in literature and art.

Tristan Corbière and the Poetics of Irony

Author : Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199295883
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Tristan Corbière and the Poetics of Irony written by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006-06-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the 19th-century French poet, Tristan Corbière. Using close textual readings from Les Amours jaunes, the only collection published in Corbière's lifetime, it examines his self-contradictory style. Corbière's use of irony is shown to be a means of exploring the doubts of modern man and the spiritual void of commodity culture.