Research Catalog

Title

The life of breath in literature, culture and medicine : classical to contemporary / David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton, editors.

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Fuller, David, 1947-
• Saunders, Corinne J., 1963-
• Macnaughton, Jane

Description

xxii, 555 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm.

Summary

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--back cover.

Series Statement

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine, 2634-6435

Uniform Title

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.

Subject

• Respiration in literature
• Respiration in art
• Respiration > Religious aspects

Note

• Open access version available.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The life of breath: contexts and approaches / David Fuller, Jane Macnaughton, and Corinne Saunders -- Part I. The Classical Period : 2. Pneumatic episodes from Homer to Galen / A.A. Long -- 3. Our common breath: 'conspiration' from the Stoics to the Church Fathers / Phillip Sidney Horky -- 4. Late antique cultures of breath: politics and the Holy Spirit / Thomas E. Hunt -- Part II. The Medieval Period : 5. From romance to vision: the life of breath in medieval literary texts / Corinne Saunders -- 6. The transformative power of breath: music, alternative theraoy, and medieval practices of contemplation / Denis Renevey -- 7. A breath of fresh air: approaches to environmental health in late medieval urban communities / Carole Rawcliffe -- Part III. The Early Modern Period : 8. 'Being breathed': from King Lear to clinical medicine / Katharine A. Craik and Stephen J. Chapman -- 9. 'Let lovers sigh out the rest': witnessing the breath in the early modern emotional body / Naya Tsentourou -- 10. What is 'the breath of our nostrils'? Ruach and Neshamah in John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Day sermon / Patrick Gray -- Part IV. The Eighteenth Century : 11. Breathscapes: natural environments in eighteenth-century physiology and psychosomatics of breathing / Rina Knoeff -- 12. 'Spoken from the impulse of the moment': epistolarity, sensibility, and breath in Frances Burney's Evelina / Gillian Skinner -- 13. 'Eloquence and oracle': tobacco in eighteenth-century life and literature / Andrew Russell -- Part V. The Romantic and Victorian Periods : 14. Romantic consumption: the paradox of fashionable breath / Clark Lawlor -- 15. Endless breath? The pipe organ and immortality / Francis O'Gorman -- 16. London fog as food: from pabulum to poison / Christine L. Corton -- 17. 'Now--for a breath I tarry': breath, desire, and queer materialism at the fin de siècle / Fraser Riddell -- Part VI. The Twentieth Century : 18. The forgotten obvious: breathing in psychoanalysis / Oriana Walker and Arthur Rose -- 19. Mysterious gear: modernist mountaineering, oxygen rigs, and the politics of breath / Abbie Garrington -- 20. Hearing the form: breath and the structures of poetry in Charles Olson and Paul Celan / David Fuller -- 21. A panting consciousness: Beckett, breath, and biocognitive feedback / Marco Bernini -- Part VII. The Twenty-First Century : 22. Syllabic gasps: M. NourbeSe Philip and Charles Olson's poetic conspiration / Stefanie Heine -- 23. Visualising the ephemeral / Jayne Wilton -- 24. Breath--as subject, in form, in performance: an interview with Michael Symmons Roberts / Michael Symmons Roberts with David Fuller -- 25. Afterwords: breath-taking--ethical impulses for breath studies / Peter Adey -- Index.

Call Number

JFD 22-352

ISBN

• 9783030744427
• 3030744426
• 9783030744458
• 3030744450

OCLC

1264404605

Title

The life of breath in literature, culture and medicine : classical to contemporary / David Fuller, Corinne Saunders, Jane Macnaughton, editors.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine, 2634-6435

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Fuller, David, 1947- editor.

Saunders, Corinne J., 1963- editor.

Macnaughton, Jane, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030744434

Research Call Number

JFD 22-352