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Literature and Consolation: Fictions of Comfort

Literature and Consolation: Fictions of Comfort - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jürgen PietersPublish date:2023-02-07Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474456562ISBN-10:1474456561UPC:9781474456562Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, American, EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCVTB6XQPK

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 that provides this special experience? How does literature help us to understand what consolation means and the effects it can have on individual readers?
The intersecting ideas of literature and consolation in Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Flaubert through to Roland Barthes, Denise Riley and Julian Barnes, guide today's readers on how literature provides examples, food for thought and good companionship in times of grief and pain. Taking its cue from the rich history of consolatory thinking, the book shows how writers from different times have explored the potential of their writing to offer solace. The result of these explorations, this book argues, has shaped the history of Western literature decisively.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474456562ISBN-10:1474456561UPC:9781474456562Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, American, EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.67 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCVTB6XQPK

J?rgen Pieters teaches Literary Theory at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Moments of Negotiation. The New Historicism of Stephen Greenblatt (Amsterdam University Press, 2001) and Speaking With the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).


Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Jürgen Pieters

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