Reading Breath in Literature / / by Arthur Rose, Stefanie Heine, Naya Tsentourou, Corinne Saunders, Peter Garratt.
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...
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| Superior document: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 134 p.) |
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Table of 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.