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oapen-20.500.12657-509442021-10-14T02:44:19Z The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine Fuller, David Saunders, Corinne Macnaughton, Jane health humanities medical humanities breath in literature COPD breathlessness literature and science Open Access bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victorian, modern and contemporary periods, drawing on medical writings, philosophy, theology and the visual arts as well as on literary, historical and cultural studies. The collection illustrates the complex significance and symbolic power of breath and breathlessness across time: breath is written deeply into ideas of nature, spirituality, emotion, creativity and being, and is inextricable from notions of consciousness, spirit, inspiration, voice, feeling, freedom and movement. The volume also demonstrates the long-standing connections between breath and place, politics and aesthetics, illuminating both contrasts and continuities. 2021-10-13T13:52:44Z 2021-10-13T13:52:44Z 2021 book ONIX_20211013_9783030744434_13 9783030744434 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50944 eng Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-74443-4.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783030744434 Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4 10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 da087c60-8432-4f58-b2dd-747fc1a60025 9783030744434 Dutch Research Council (NWO) Palgrave Macmillan 555 [grantnumber unknown] Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research open access
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This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victorian, modern and contemporary periods, drawing on medical writings, philosophy, theology and the visual arts as well as on literary, historical and cultural studies. The collection illustrates the complex significance and symbolic power of breath and breathlessness across time: breath is written deeply into ideas of nature, spirituality, emotion, creativity and being, and is inextricable from notions of consciousness, spirit, inspiration, voice, feeling, freedom and movement. The volume also demonstrates the long-standing connections between breath and place, politics and aesthetics, illuminating both contrasts and continuities.
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