Christopher Dowrick

Reading to Stay Alive

Tolstoy, Hopkins and the Dilemma of Existence

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how literary reading can enable people considering suicide to stay alive.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781785278914
• ISBN-10: 1785278916
• Artikelnr.: 61446548

Autorenporträt

Christopher Dowrick is Emeritus Professor in the University of Liverpool UK, and past chair of the World Organisation of Family Doctors working party for mental health.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Staying Alive?
2.Thwarted Belongingness
3.Escape from Them All and from Myself
4. Not Choose Not to Be
5. Points of Transformation
6. Creating Raisons d'Etre
7.  Staying Alive
  Index