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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.