Reading Breath in Literature
Auteur
Rose, Arthur
Heine, Stefanie
Tsentourou, Naya
Saunders, Corinne
Garratt, Peter
Language
EnglishRésumé
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.
Keywords
Literature; Fiction; Drama; Poetry; Literature—PhilosophyPublisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
http://www.springernature.com/oabooksPublication date and place
Cham, 2019Series
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,Classification
Literary theory
Literary studies: poetry and poets
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
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