Kelda Green

Rethinking Therapeutic Reading (eBook, PDF)

Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Rethinking Therapeutic Reading' uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces for personal thinking. It reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785273827
• Artikelnr.: 63604373

Autorenporträt

Kelda Green completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool's Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society in 2018.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: Four Models
I. Senecan Tragedy and Stoic Philosophy
II. Therapy and the Essay: Montaigne, after Seneca
III. Therapy and Poetry: Wordsworth, after Seneca
IV. Therapy and the Novel: George Eliot, after Wordsworth
Part Two: Three Experiments
V. Experiment One: First Impressions
VI. Experiment Two: Slowing Down and Tuning In
VII. Experiment Three: Writing Back
Conclusion
Index.