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OverviewI sleep, but my heart wakes, says the Song of Songs. The other nightnames the sleepless night we spend in dreams.From The Interpretation of Dreams to Finnegans Wake, many of the great writing projects of the first half of the twentieth century articulate experiences of waking in the very depths of sleep, where no Ican declare itself present though the heart still beats. After World War II, in the cold light of the closure of the age of dreambooks, Beckett and Blanchot discover with new clarity, and new fatigue, that what wakes when the Isleeps doesn't sleep when the Iwakes.Revisiting Freud's argument that the dream is a form of writing, The Other Night looks at how life becomes literature in this wakefulness. Though we seem to be seeing things in our dreams, we are actually confronted with a kind of writing. This writing is not in our power, and yet it is ours. We are responsible for it in the same strange way that we are responsible for our lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Herschel Farbman (Department of French and Italian University of California Irvine)Publisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press ISBN: 9780823235780ISBN 10: 0823235785 Publication Date: 01 September 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews". . .Generates some important insights on Joyce's last work. The Other Night is as demanding as the literature it engages with, and is not for the faint-hearted. Farbman's strength lies in the rigorous and detailed linguistic analyses of these lengthy, complex texts, to which he brings both considerable and considerate knowledge. This book about restlessness generates a restlessness of its own, a ferment of ideas, hints, and possibilities. ""Farbman relates to readers in a very congenial, somewhat conversational way."" -Comparative Literature Studies" . . .Generates some important insights on Joyce's last work. The Other Night is as demanding as the literature it engages with, and is not for the faint-hearted. Farbman's strength lies in the rigorous and detailed linguistic analyses of these lengthy, complex texts, to which he brings both considerable and considerate knowledge. This book about restlessness generates a restlessness of its own, a ferment of ideas, hints, and possibilities. Farbman relates to readers in a very congenial, somewhat conversational way. -Comparative Literature Studies Author InformationHERSCHEL FARBMAN is a Lecturer in English and French at the University of California, Irvine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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