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Reading to Stay Alive Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence.
This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Anthem studies in bibliotherapy and well-being.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Staying Alive?
- Five Stories
- Suicidal Ideas and Actions
- Caring for People with Suicidal Thoughts
- Acknowledge the Deeply Unconsolable
- Themes of This Book
- Perspectives
- Notes
- 2. Thwarted Belongingness
- Anomie and Alienation
- Melancholia and Thanatos
- Social Roots of Suicide
- Belonging and Burden
- Defeat and Entrapment
- Sense of Safety
- Suicide as a Communicative Act
- Informing Literary Reading
- Notes
- 3. Escape from Them All and from Myself
- It's All So Unimportant
- So as Not to Be Ashamed
- You Will Regret This
- The Zest Is Gone
- He Acted and Lived Unfalteringly and Definitely
- Serving the Universe
- Notes
- 4. Not Choose Not to Be
- Simple and Beautiful Oneness
- A Continually Jaded and Harassed Mind
- My Lament Is Cries Countless
- It Brings a Closeness
- Can Something, Hope
- Leave Comfort Root-Room
- Plough Down Sillion Shine
- Notes
- 5. Points of Transformation
- An Everyday Temptation
- A Denial of Experience
- Prate Not to Me of Suicide
- The Artist Must Play
- I Can't Wrap This Up
- What Good Is Done?
- And Then We Shall Dwell Together
- Points of Transformation
- Notes
- 6. Creating Raisons d'etre
- A Vain, Fruitless, and Self-Contradictory Effort
- Intentional Entity
- Desire Is the Very Essence of Man
- Vastly More Intersubjectivity
- The Struggle Towards the Heights
- Continually Completely New?
- Notes
- 7. Staying Alive
- Sunt Lacrimae Rerum
- Back to Black
- Final Reflections
- Notes
- Index