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The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine : Classical to Contemporary.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fuller, David.
Other Authors: Saunders, Corinne., Macnaughton, Jane.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Praise for The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 The Life of Breath: Contexts and Approaches
  • Contexts and Approaches: 'The Age of the Breath'?
  • The Life of Breath Project
  • The Life of Breath: From Classical to Contemporary
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Part I The Classical Period
  • 2 Pneumatic Episodes from Homer to Galen
  • Introduction
  • Breath and Life in the Earliest Greek Literature
  • Air/Breath/Wind as Life Force in Early Greek Philosophy and Medicine
  • Breath, Blood, and Respiration in Early Greek Thought
  • Breath/pneuma as Life-Generating Substance
  • Galen on the Use of Breathing and the Causes of Breathlessness
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 3 Our Common Breath: 'Conspiration' from the Stoics to the Church Fathers
  • Bibliography
  • 4 Late Antique Cultures of Breath: Politics and the Holy Spirit
  • Breath and Human Difference in Late Antique Rome
  • The Holy Spirit and Breath
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Part II The Medieval Period
  • 5 From Romance to Vision: The Life of Breath in Medieval Literary Texts
  • Breath, Pneuma, and Embodied Being
  • Fainting Hearts
  • Awakening Life
  • Swooning into Vision
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 6 The Transformative Power of Breath: Music, Alternative Therapy, and Medieval Practices of Contemplation
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  • Selected Bibliography
  • 7 A Breath of Fresh Air: Approaches to Environmental Health in Late Medieval Urban Communities
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Part III The Early Modern Period
  • 8 'Being Breathed': From King Lear to Clinical Medicine
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • Seleted Bibliography
  • 9 'Let Lovers Sigh Out the Rest': Witnessing the Breath in the Early Modern Emotional Body
  • Selected Bibliography.
  • 10 What Is 'the Breath of Our Nostrils'? Ruach and Neshamah in John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Day Sermon
  • Bibliography
  • Part IV The Eighteenth Century
  • 11 Breathscapes: Natural Environments in Eighteenth-Century Physiology and Psychosomatics of Breathing
  • Respiration in Eighteenth-Century Medicine
  • The Psychosomatics of Indoor Breathing
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 12 'Spoken from the Impulse of the Moment': Epistolarity, Sensibility, and Breath in Frances Burney's Evelina
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 13 'Eloquence and Oracle': Tobacco in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature
  • A Deep History of Tobacco in Lowland South America
  • Tobacco Constituting Persons, Shifting Shapes, and Changing Perspectives
  • Tobacco Generates Dualisms
  • Tobacco in Enlightenment Life and Thought
  • The Stupefying Pleasures and Material Sociality of Tobacco
  • Tobacco and Embodied Cognition
  • Tobacco and the Scientific Separation of 'Facts' and 'Values'
  • 'It'-Narratives and the Poetry of Attention-Changing Perspectives?
  • The Silence of Tobacco
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Part V The Romantic and Victorian Periods
  • 14 Romantic Consumption: The Paradox of Fashionable Breath
  • Fashionable Consumptive Breath
  • Alastor and Romantic Death-Fashionable Breath
  • Conclusions
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 15 Endless Breath? The Pipe Organ and Immortality
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 16 London Fog as Food: From Pabulum to Poison
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 17 'Now-for a breath I tarry': Breath, Desire, and Queer Materialism at the fin de siècle
  • Sexology, Embodiment, and Breath: Atmungstypus Männlich
  • A. E. Housman: 'Beneath the Suffocating Night'
  • John Addington Symonds: 'I Seem to Feel the Aura in Him'
  • Walter Pater: 'Fade Out of the World like a Breath'
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Part VI The Twentieth Century.
  • 18 The Forgotten Obvious: Breathing in Psychoanalysis
  • Vagitus-Rattles
  • On the Self-Steering Respiration
  • Jung's Pneumograph
  • Against Breath: Freud and the Foreclosed Symptom
  • Nasus-Interruptus
  • The Wolfman
  • Respiratory Erotism
  • Conclusion: Respiration and Personality
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 19 Mysterious Gear: Modernist Mountaineering, Oxygen Rigs, and the Politics of Breath
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 20 Hearing the Form: Breath and the Structures of Poetry in Charles Olson and Paul Celan
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 21 A Panting Consciousness: Beckett, Breath, and Biocognitive Feedback
  • Breath and Consciousness: A Co-dependent Intimacy
  • The 'I-Breathe': Agency, Time-Consciousness, and Biocognitive Tempos
  • Breathing Mediacy: Knowing, Experiencing, Witnessing
  • Knowing, Experiencing, Witnessing
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Part VII The Twenty-First Century
  • 22 Syllabic Gasps: M. NourbeSe Philip and Charles Olson's Poetic Conspiration
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 23 Visualising the Ephemeral
  • Part 1: A History in Epitomes
  • Part 2: My Own Work-in the Laboratory
  • in Hospital and Hospice
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 24 Breath-As Subject, in Form, in Performance: An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts
  • Selected Bibliography
  • 25 Afterword: Breath-Taking-Ethical Impulses for Breath Studies
  • Conspiration and Conspiracies
  • Capacities
  • Inscriptions
  • (Dis)Placements
  • Conspirations and Common
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.

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