Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema - Arts and Humanities for Sustainable Well-Being

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and cinematic epiphanies.

List of contents

Introduction: Artistic Epiphanies and Arts for Health
PART I: LITERATURE
1.) Experiencing Epiphanies: James Joyce, Modern Secularity, and “The Dead”
2.) Epiphanies before Joyce: Hamlet
3.) Epiphanies before Joyce: Wordsworth to Chekhov
4.) Epiphanies after Joyce: Woolf to Ozeki
Part II: CINEMA
5.) Epiphanies in Post-WWII European Art Cinema
6.) Transcendental Style and Slow Cinema
Conclusion: Sustainable Well-being in Practice: Paterson, One Window’s Light, and Shared Reading

About the author

Bradley Lewis, MD, PhD, has dual degrees in psychiatry and interdisciplinary humanities. He is a practicing psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and professor of health humanities and cultural/disability studies at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He works at the interface of psychiatry, healthcare, humanities, arts, mad studies, disability studies, cultural studies, and religious studies. His books include Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Practice and Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming Mad Studies Reader.

Summary

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and cinematic epiphanies.

Product details

• Authors: Bradley Lewis, Lewis Bradley
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032294483
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3229448-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Media Studies, MEDICAL / Public Health, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Health psychology, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, health humanities