Reading Breath in Literature

• Autor principal: Rose, Arthur (auth)
• Outros Autores: Heine, Stefanie (auth), Tsentourou, Naya (auth), Saunders, Corinne (auth), Garratt, Peter (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Cham Springer Nature 2019
• coleção: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Assuntos: Literary theory; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literary studies: plays & playwrights; Fiction & related items; Literature; Fiction; Drama; Poetry; Literature-Philosophy
• Acesso em linha: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Resumo

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.

Descrição Física

1 electronic resource (134 p.)

ISBN

978-3-319-99948-7

Acesso

Open Access