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The life of breath in literature, culture and medicine : classical to contemp…
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, Victori…
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- 9783030744434
- Collation
- xxii, 555 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
- Call Number
- 809.933561 FUL t
Reading Breath in Literature
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…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319999487
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- X, 134 p.
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
- Call Number
- 809.3 REA r
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