Reading Breath in Literature Reading Breath in Literature
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Reading Breath in Literature

Arthur Rose and Others

Publisher Description

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.  

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
October 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
Springer International Publishing
SELLER
Springer Nature B.V.
SIZE
1.5
MB

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