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oapen-20.500.12657-229712024-03-22T19:23:35Z Reading Breath in Literature Rose, Arthur Heine, Stefanie Tsentourou, Naya Saunders, Corinne Garratt, Peter 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 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. 2020-03-18 13:36:15 2020-04-01T08:58:04Z 2020-04-01T08:58:04Z 2019 book 1007187 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22971 eng Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine application/pdf n/a 1007187.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783319999487 Springer Nature 10.1007/978-3-319-99948-7 10.1007/978-3-319-99948-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 134 Cham open access
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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.
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