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The Ancient World Online: Sleep in Literature: On the narratology and aesthetics of an everyday extreme experience from antiquity to the present

Edited by:


Jörg Schuster

and
Maximilian Wick

book: Sleep in literature

eBook published on:

December 1, 2025

eBook ISBN:

9783111132808

Hardcover published on:

December 1, 2025

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111090375

Front matter:

8

Main content:

392

Illustrations:

4

Coloured Illustrations:

6

Tables:

3

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VII

Jörg Schuster and Maximilian Wick

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1

Christine Walde

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9

An episode from Virgil Aeneas as an allegory of knowledge

Dominic Angeloch

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35

Motifs of sleeping and awakening in Christian Latin poetry

Stefan Freund

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63

Franziska Wenzel

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85

The saint’s sleep in Sente Servas Heinrich von Veldeke

Julius Herr

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117

To a cross-border motif in Ötenbacher sisters’ book and in Wolfdietrich D

Mareike von Müller

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139

Monastic vigilance regimes under Caesarius von Heisterbach and Richalm von Schöntal

Michael Waltenberg

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167

Using the example of Conrad of Würzburg Schwanritter

Maximilian Wick

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189

On the narrative functionalization of sleep Fortunate

Nina Scheibel-Drissen

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207

To a motif in poetry and visual art of sensitivity

Joachim Jacob

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233

Scenarios of sleep and creative practices of its initiation by Johann Karl Wezel and Jean Paul

Reinhard M. Möller

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249

SOMNAMBULUSMUS IN CARL ARNOLD KORTUMS Appendage to the Jobsiade

Roy Kehl

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269

Sleep, dreams and subliminal perception in Rainer Maria Rilke

Manfred Koch

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293

Sleep (lessness) in German-language post-war literature by Günter Eich, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Nelly Sachs and Paul Celan

Jörg Schuster

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309

On the sleep observation of the body’s interior in contemporary fantasy using the example of Walter Moers’ Princess Insomnia and the Nightmare Nightmare (2017)

Iris Schäfer

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325

The dream of sleep by Ottessa Moshfegh

Lena Wiesenfarth

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345

Reflections on a narratology of sleep knowledge

Jonathan Holst

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