Reading Breath in Literature

• Tác giả: Peter Garratt, Stefanie Heine, Arthur Rose, Corinne Saunders, Naya Tsentourou
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3319999487
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer Nature, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (134 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 223156
• Chủ đề: 1. Fiction & related items; 2. Literary studies: plays & playwrights; 3. Literary studies: poetry & poets; 4. Literary theory

Tóm tắt

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.