Literary Studies and Well-Being: : Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare/ / Ronald Schleifer

• VerfasserIn: Schleifer, Ronald,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Academic,, 2022.; London : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself. During the past twenty years, much...

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Thesis and Contexts
• Chapter 2: Introduction: On the Discipline of Literary Studies
• Chapter 3: Disciplined Knowledge and the Experience of Meaning
• Chapter 4: The Nature of Value and the Nature of Language
• Chapter 5: The Discipline of Death
• Chapter 6: Action and Ethics in Literary Studies
• Works Cited.