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Literature and consolation : fictions of comfort /

"By focusing on a number of significant moments in the interlocking histories of the book's two central concepts--literature and consolation--this study makes readers aware of the premises that underlie the assumption that literary writings can bring comfort. What is it in literary texts t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pieters, Jürgen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : Fictions of Comfort -- The Classical Regime of Literary Comfort : From Homer to Aristotle -- The Christian Regime of Literary Comfort : From Boethius to Dante -- Toward a Modern Regime of Literary Comfort : Shakespeare and the Failure to Console -- The Religion of Despair : George Sand and Gustave Flaubert on Reading and Writing -- Novels of Comfort : Woolf, Winnicott and the Work of Consolation -- Fragments of a Consolatory Discourse : Sontag, Riley, Proust, Barthes -- Epilogue : The Library of Comfort. 
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