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La danseuse, metteure en scène et dramaturge Esther Meunier Corfdyr s'aventure en territoires endormis : convoquant les sommeils d'une vingtaine d'œuvres théâtrales, chorégraphiques, picturales, cet essai questionne depuis l'espace scénique la représentation du corps endormi et les enjeux qui y sont associés. J'ai rencontré le sommeil, en rêve. Cette rencontre m'a menée vers des espaces tout aussi libres que mystérieux, ces ailleurs où nous nous échappons une fois nos paupières closes. Partant de l'intuition d'un lien foncier entre la scène et le sommeil, j'arpente les lieux propices à son apparition – lits, matelas, tentes, chambres…, pour mieux suivre les sentiers de celles et ceux qui dorment comme on oscille sur le seuil des espoirs, des jonctions et du renouveau.

Dance --- Choreography --- Body language --- Sleep in literature --- Sleep in art --- Theater --- Sommeil --- Théâtre --- Littérature --- Themes, motives --- Dans la littérature. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Théâtre --- Littérature --- Themes, motives. --- Thèmes, motifs

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Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering the narrativization of sleep in Austen, the politicization of sleep in Dickens, the queering of sleep in Goncharov, the aestheticization of sleep in Proust, and the medicalization of sleep in contemporary fiction, it examines the ways in which novelists envision the figure of the sleeper, the meanings they discover in human sleep, and the values they attach to it. It argues that literary fiction harbours, on its margins, a “sleeping partner”, one that we can nickname the Schlafroman or “sleep-novel”, whose quiet absorption in the wordlessness and passivity of human slumber subtly complicates the imperatives of self-awareness and purposive action that traditionally govern the novel. .

Sleep in literature. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Fiction. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century.

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Forming Sleep asks how biocultural and literary dynamics act together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Engaging with poetry, drama, and prose largely written in English between 1580 and 1670, the essays in this collection highlight period discussions about how seemingly insentient states might actually enable self-formation. Looking at literary representations of sleep through formalism, biopolitics, Marxist theory, trauma theory, and affect theory, this volume envisions sleep states as a means of defining the human condition, both literally and metaphorically. The contributors examine a range of archival sources—including texts in early modern faculty psychology, printed and manuscript medical treatises and physicians’ notes, and printed ephemera on pathological sleep—through the lenses of both classical and contemporary philosophy. Essays apply these frameworks to genres such as drama, secular lyric, prose treatise, epic, and religious verse. Taken together, these essays demonstrate how early modern depictions of sleep shape, and are shaped by, the philosophical, medical, political, and, above all, formal discourses through which they are articulated. With this in mind, the question of form merges considerations of the physical and the poetic with the spiritual and the secular, highlighting the pervasiveness of sleep states as a means by which to reflect on the human condition. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Brian Chalk, Jennifer Lewin, Cassie Miura, Benjamin Parris, Giulio Pertile, N. Amos Rothschild, Garret A. Sullivan Jr., and Timothy A. Turner.

Consciousness in literature. --- Sleep in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Biocultural. --- Consciousness. --- Drama. --- Early Modern. --- England. --- Epic. --- Form. --- Formalism. --- Genre. --- Literature. --- Lyric. --- Mary Sidney. --- Mary Wroth. --- Milton. --- Petrarch. --- Philip Sidney. --- Renaissance. --- Robert Burton. --- Shakespeare. --- Sleep State. --- Sleep. --- Spenser. --- Thomas Campion.

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Garrett Sullivan explores the changing impact of Aristotelian conceptions of vitality and humanness on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature before and after the rise of Descartes. Aristotle's tripartite soul is usually considered in relation to concepts of psychology and physiology. However, Sullivan argues that its significance is much greater, constituting a theory of vitality that simultaneously distinguishes man from, and connects him to, other forms of life. He contends that, in works such as Sidney's Old Arcadia, Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lost and Dryden's All for Love, the genres of epic and romance, whose operations are informed by Aristotle's theory, provide the raw materials for exploring different models of humanness; and that sleep is the vehicle for such exploration as it blurs distinctions among man, plant and animal.

English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Human beings in literature. --- Life in literature. --- Philosophy in literature. --- Sleep in literature. --- Soul in literature. --- Man in literature --- History and criticism. --- Aristotle --- Aristoteles --- Aristote --- Arisṭāṭṭil --- Aristo, --- Aristotel --- Aristotele --- Aristóteles, --- Aristòtil --- Aristotile --- Arisṭū --- Arisṭūṭālīs --- Arisutoteresu --- Arystoteles --- Ya-li-shih-to-te --- Ya-li-ssu-to-te --- Yalishiduode --- Yalisiduode --- Ἀριστοτέλης --- Αριστοτέλης --- Аристотел --- ארסטו --- אריםטו --- אריסטו --- אריסטוטלס --- אריסטוטלוס --- אריסטוטליס --- أرسطاطاليس --- أرسططاليس --- أرسطو --- أرسطوطالس --- أرسطوطاليس --- ابن رشد --- اريسطو --- Pseudo Aristotele --- Pseudo-Aristotle --- アリストテレス --- Influence. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature