Reading Breath in Literature

Reading Breath in Literature

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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,
Subjects:
Fiction.
Drama.
Poetry.
Literature > Philosophy.
Fiction Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Reading Breath in Literature - Arthur Rose
  • 2. The Play of Breath: Chaucer's Narratives of Feeling - Corinne Saunders
  • 3. Wasting Breath in Hamlet - Naya Tsentourou
  • 4. Out of Breath: Respiratory Aesthetics from Ruskin to Vernon Lee - Peter Garratt
  • 5. Ebb and Flow: Breath-writing from Ancient Rhetoric to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg - Stefanie Heine
  • 6. Combat Breathing in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh - Arthur Rose.

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