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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pieters, Jürgen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Literature and society.
Reading, Psychology of.
Consolation in literature.
Littérature et société.
Lecture > Psychologie.
Consolation dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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