Film and Literature Studies

I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead - Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media

March 25th, 2023

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTSI’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media July 2-7, 2023 in MontrealDEADLINE March 31, 2023CORERISC: the Collective for Research on Epistemologies of Embodied Risk, and The Sociability of Sleep seek participants for a week-long writing workshop (July 2-7, 2023) centered on sleep in 21st century horror media. We aim to explore how horror media–from films to television to social media–responds to the conditions of sleep as a site of embodied risk today....

I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media

March 16th, 2023

updated: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:39pm full name / name of organization: CORERISC / The Sociability of Sleep contact email: corerisc@gmail.com categories (up to 5): cultural studies and historical approaches film and television interdisciplinary science and culture deadline for ...

Harrisons Art of Generosity - Poetics and Ecology

February 1st, 2023

The Harrisons’ Art of Generosity: Poetics and EcologyMonica ManolescuThis article offers a literary perspective on Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison’s discourses, texts, stories and voices, and the ways in which they act in performative ways, creating an art of doing things with words. I would like to argue that this performativity is the expression of a strong commitment to the present moment that Camus qualified as "generosity" and that defines the models of authorship, agency, art-m...

Story idea from Dream Log - 17 Aug 2000

May 26th, 2022

Just an idea: make this into a real fiction story? Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Dream Log: August 17, 2000 (thing) See all of Dream Log: August 17, 2000, there are 3 more in this node. (thing) by abiessu Thu Aug 17 2000 at 13:42:15 This dream was about coffee (thanks, knifegirl! no, I'm not mad about it, it was an interesting dream . . . [this reference is from a chatterbox conversation earlier in which knifegirl mentioned coffee in some way tha...

Dwale - A Medieval Sleeping Drug in the Seventeenth-Century

February 9th, 2022

Dwale was still known about in England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. By Dr. Elizabeth K. HunterWellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research FellowQueen Mary University of London As part of my research into early modern sleep disorders, I have been examining the wide variety of sleep remedies available in England at the time. Browsing through the manuscript receipt collections at the Wellcome Library in London, I came across one with...

Van Gogh’s Bed

September 27th, 2021

Van Gogh’s Bed By Jane Flanders is orange, like Cinderella’s coach, like the sun when he looked it straight in the eye. is narrow, he sleeps alone, tossing between two pillows, while it carried him bumpily to the ball. is clumsy, but friendly. A peasant built the frame; and old wife beat the mattress till it rose like meringue. is empty, morning light pours in like wine, melody, fragrance, the memory of happiness. Summary of Van Gogh’s Bed The popularity of "Van...