The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
Classical to Contemporary
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 brea…
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Weitere Autoren: Macnaughton, Jane (Hrsg.) / Saunders, Corinne (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-030-74445-8
- EAN: 9783030744458
- Produktnummer: 37675665
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 580 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D3.0 cm 740 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 740
Über den Autor
David Fuller is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Durham, UK. He has written on literary works from medieval to contemporary, on editorial theory, on opera and on dance. His most recent book is Shakespeare and the Romantics in the series 'Oxford Shakespeare Topics' (2021).Corinne Saunders is Professor of English and Co-Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Durham, UK, and specialises in medieval literature and history of ideas. Her most recent book is the co-edited volume Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Jane Macnaughton is Professor of Medical Humanities, Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities at the University of Durham, UK, and a practicing physician. She was Principal Investigator on the Wellcome-funded Life of Breath project (2014-20) and is a co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Medical Humanities (2016).
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