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At the Borders of SleepOn Liminal Literature$
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At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature

Peter Schwenger

Print publication date: 2012

Print ISBN-13: 9780816679751

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679751.001.0001

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Sleepless

Sleepless

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(p.51) Two Sleepless
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At the Borders of Sleep
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Peter Schwenger

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816679751.003.0002

Hundreds of authors have written about insomnia; and some, like Kafka, have said that insomnia is responsible for their being writers. This is no doubt due to the insights of this liminal state—for during insomnia the daylight personality dissolves, and one becomes aware of a restless nocturnal consciousness.

Keywords:   liminality, consciousness, insomnia, night, literature, sleep, dream, waking, reading, writing

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