Reading Breath in Literature

by Naya Tsentourou, Stefanie Heine, Arthur Rose

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 Si?cle Aesthetics, American Poetics and the Postcolonial Novel, this book offers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319999478
• ISBN13: 9783319999470
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"