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Title

  • Reading Breath in Literature

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.

Names

  • Rose, Arthur, author.
  • Garratt, Peter, author.
  • Heine, Stefanie, author.
  • Saunders, Corinne, author.
  • Tsentourou, Naya, author.

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.

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.

Headings

  • -  Drama
  • -  Fiction
  • -  Literature--Philosophy
  • -  Poetry
  • -  Literary Theory
  • -  Poetry and Poetics

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0) (SpringerNature-43723)
  • -  Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (SpringerNature-41173)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (X, 134 pages)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019758839

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access
  • Open Access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Rose, Arthur, Author, Peter Garratt, Stefanie Heine, Corinne Saunders, and Naya Tsentourou. Reading Breath in Literature. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019758839/.

APA citation style:

Rose, A., Garratt, P., Heine, S., Saunders, C. & Tsentourou, N. (2019) Reading Breath in Literature. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Pivot. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019758839/.

MLA citation style:

Rose, Arthur, Author, et al. Reading Breath in Literature. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019758839/>.