Sleep and the Novel

Sleep and the Novel
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9783319752532
ISBN-13 : 3319752537
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Book Synopsis Sleep and the Novel by : Michael Greaney

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 228 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.


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