Reading Breath in Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781013276712)

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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Author: Peter Garratt,Corinne Saunders,Naya Tsentourou
ISBN-10: 101327671X
ISBN-13: 9781013276712
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2020
Pages: 142
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.38d