Scanning the hypnoglyph : sleep in modernist and postmodern representation /

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Author / Creator:Wallace, Nathaniel Owen, 1948- author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 343 pages)
Language:English
Series:Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; volume 46
Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 46.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11909714
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ISBN:9004316213
9789004316218
9789004316188
9004316183
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 15, 2016).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Wallace, Nathaniel Owen, 1948- Scanning the hypnoglyph. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004316188
Table of Contents:
  • Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; 1: Introduction: From Hypnos to the Hypnoglyph; Formatting the Hypnoglyph; Sleep and Narrative Resistance; Sleep and Cognitive Study; The Dream, Textual Servant; Fighting Sleep: Christian Directory X2 (Persons and Baxter), Descartes's Cogito, and Pascal; Baudelairean and Other Beginnings; Sleep amid Mid-nineteenth Century Migrations of Religious Discourse; 2: A Life in the Day of a Hypnoglyph: Vertical Slumber and Other Typicalities.
  • Elizabeth Bishop's "Sleeping Standing Up"Robert Lowell's "Man and Wife"; Vincent Desiderio's The Sleeping Family; Vincent Desiderio's The Intepretation of Color; 3: The Size of Sleep, Sizing the Self; Richard Wilbur's "Walking to Sleep"; Anselm Kiefer's The Rose Gives Honey to the Bees (Dat Rosa Mel Apibus); Fran Gardner's No Need for Wings; Fran Gardner's Orienting the Self; David Yaghjian's Sleep; 4: Latter-Day Ariadnes: From Hypnoglyph to Somnoscript; Anne Sexton's "Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty)"; Marguerite Duras's The Malady of Death (La maladie de la mort).
  • Yasunari Kawabata's "House of the Sleeping Beauties"Anselm Kiefer's Brunnhilde Sleeps; 5: Alternate Endymions, Other Ariadnes; Gustav Courbet's Sleep (The Two Friends); The Plurisexual Marcel Proust; The Queer Schlaraffenland of Paul Cadmus; Signorelli's Afterlife: Freud to Lacan; Andy Warhol's Sleep; Marguerite Duras's Blue Eyes Black Hair (Les yeux bleus cheveux noirs); Mark Tansey's Utopic; Vincent Desiderio's Couple; 6: Conclusion: The Hypnoglyph and the Misclosure of the Postmodern; Bibliography; Index.