Reading Breath in Literature
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...
| Autores principales: | , , , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Colección: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430457006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
