Between Sleep and Waking: Montaigne, Keats and Proust
Anthem Press eBooks February 15, 2011 Jeremy F. Lane 2 citations
This brief essay emerges from an ongoing study of relations between imaginative writing and liminal states or movements of consciousness, especially those on the threshold between waking and sleep, or between consciousness and its loss or inhibition. In the examples considered here, such writing is meditative and self-reflective, and brings the first person into the centre of its concern. Its...