Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation

Beginning with the observation that the representation of sleep, even in its elemental dreamless form, performs aesthetic functions, delineates the individual psyche, and reveals cultural values, Wallace explores sleep in modernist and postmodernist literature in terms of from hypnos to the hypnoglyph, a life in the day of a hypnoglyph: vertical slumber and other typicalities, the size of sleep: sizing the self, latter-day Ariadnes: from hypnoglyph to somnoscript, alternate Endymions and other Ariadnes, and the hypnoglyph and the misclosure of the postmodern. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)