EAN: 9783030744458

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND MEDI...

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.

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