Reading Breath in Literature

This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawi...

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Main Authors: Rose, Arthur (Author), Heine, Stefanie (Author), Tsentourou, Naya (Author), Saunders, Corinne (Author), Garratt, Peter (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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Summary:This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American Poetics and the Postcolonial Novel, this book offers the first transhistorical study of breath in literature. At the same time, it shows how the study of breath in literature can contribute to recent developments in the Medical Humanities. .
Physical Description:X, 134 p. online resource.
ISBN:9783319999487
ISSN:2634-6443
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-99948-7
Access:Open Access