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TY - JOUR
T1 - Sleep and Modern Fiction
AU - Greaney, Michael
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - The aim of this essay is to provide an overview of representations of sleep in modern fiction from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It will explore the presence of sleep and sleep-related experiences in key literary periods (fin de siècle, modernist, postmodernist) and genres (detective fiction, science fiction, magic realism, ‘LadLit’), and show how this universal human experience commands the fascinated attention of writers even as it uncannily defies straightforward literary representation.
AB - The aim of this essay is to provide an overview of representations of sleep in modern fiction from the late nineteenth century to the present day. It will explore the presence of sleep and sleep-related experiences in key literary periods (fin de siècle, modernist, postmodernist) and genres (detective fiction, science fiction, magic realism, ‘LadLit’), and show how this universal human experience commands the fascinated attention of writers even as it uncannily defies straightforward literary representation.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00708.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00708.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 467
EP - 476
JO - Literature Compass
JF - Literature Compass
SN - 1741-4113
IS - 6
ER -