TY - GEN AU - Rose,Arthur AU - Heine,Stefanie AU - Tsentourou,Naya AU - Saunders,Corinne AU - Garratt,Peter TI - Reading Breath in Literature SN - 978-3-319-99948-7 PY - 2019/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature KW - Literary theory KW - bicssc KW - Literary studies: poetry & poets KW - Literary studies: plays & playwrights KW - Fiction & related items KW - Literature KW - Fiction KW - Drama KW - Poetry KW - Literature—Philosophy N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22971/1/1007187.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37352 ER -