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Rethinking Therapeutic Reading - Lessons From Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot

English · Hardback

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Through a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology, 'Rethinking Therapeutic Reading' reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles.

List of contents










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.


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


Product details

Authors Kelda Green
Publisher Anthem Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.05.2020
 
EAN 9781785273810
ISBN 978-1-78527-381-0
No. of pages 208
Series Anthem Studies in Bibliotherapy and Well-Being
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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