1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Luminary would like to thank Sara Gancho, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA), Lancaster University for her cover art design. Sara can be contacted via
[email protected], and her work can be viewed at: http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/people/Sara_Gancho http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sara-gancho/2a/22b/18a We would also like to thank Dr. Michael Greaney, Professor Lynne Pearce, Professor Graham Mort, Dr. Brian Baker and Professor John Schad for their support and input. Thanks also to Distinguished Professor of Literature, Terry Eagleton. www.lancs.ac.uk/luminary
[email protected] 2 SLEEP(LESS) BEDS CONTENTS The Story of the Bed (Foreword) - Dr. Michael Greaney, Lancaster University pp. 4-5 CREATIVE PIECES Formation of a different medium of perception (Visual) pp. 6-8 - Fatemeh Takhtkeshian, Lancaster University Sleeping Over (Creative Writing) pp. 9-12 - Chris Wiewiora, Iowa State University Neither Sleeping nor Waking (Poetry) p. 13 - Kevin McLellan, University of Rhode Island CRITICAL PIECES ‘Never Sleep Again’ - Horrific Beds in Wes Craven’s Nightmares - Katharina Rein, Humboldt-University of Berlin pp. 14-25 ‘Then draw the Curtaines againe’: The Strange Case of Good Duke Humphrey (of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part Two) - Dr. Filip Krajnik, Durham University pp. 26-37 Between the Sheets: ‘Lamination’ and Sophie Calle’s The Sleepers - Erkan Ali, Lancaster University pp. 38-51 Scenes from a bedroom: situating British independent music, 1979-1995 - Elodie Amandine Roy, Newcastle University pp. 52-61 The Public and Private Realms in the Seventeenth-Century: A Parameter of Wood and Fabric - Sarah Ann Robin, Lancaster University pp.