Insomnia by Eluned Summers-Bremner
Shows that the roots and effects of insomnia are complex, and reveals how humans have employed art, science and witchcraft to understand and treat the affliction. This exploration of sleeplessness begins with the literature of ancient times, and finds its sufferers in prominent texts such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Bible.
Summers-Bremner's excellent account of insomnia shows that the consideration of our waking moments is indicative of the changing ways we think about lifeAs crime fiction and drug prescriptions will attest, the inability to sleep is also a condition of modernity ... Wasn't it Margaret Thatcher who said that sleeping was "for wimps?" Financial Times magazine Summers-Bremner's account of literary usages of insomnia, from Gilgamesh to Garcia Marquez, is a rich one, sufficient to make the case that insomnia is a recurrent theme in Western culture. Wall Street Journal A fascinating study Daily Telegraph A well-informed and important book Times Higher Education A whimsical tour of the history of how different cultures have viewed not only insomnia but also the night itself, sleep, dreams, darkness, and activities that occur in the dark ... covers a wide swath of territory and poetically describes what historical figures wrote or thought about insomnia The New England Journal of Medicine
Eluned Summers-Bremner is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of Insomnia: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2007).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781861896544 |
| ISBN 10 | 1861896549 |
| Title | Insomnia |
| Author | Eluned Summers-Bremner |
| Series | Foci |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2010-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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