Reading Breath in Literature

Rose, Arthur; Heine, Stefanie; Tsentourou, Naya; Saunders, Corinne; Garratt, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99948-7

Author(s)

Rose, Arthur

Heine, Stefanie

Tsentourou, Naya

Saunders, Corinne

Garratt, Peter

Language

English

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Abstract

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.

URI

https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/188245

Keywords

Literature; Fiction; Drama; Poetry; Literature—Philosophy; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry and poets; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights; thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items

Publication date and place

Cham, 2019

Series

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,