The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine - - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

1. The Life of Breath: Contexts and Approaches, David Fuller, Jane Macnaughton, and Corinne Saunders .- 2. Pneumatic Episodes from Homer to Galen, A. A. Long .- 3. Our Common Breath: ''Conspiration'' from the Stoics to the Church Fathers, Phillip Sidney Horky .- 4. Late Antique Cultures of Breath: Politics and the Holy Spirit, Thomas E. Hunt .- 5. From Romance to Vision: The Life of Breath in Medieval Literary Texts, Corinne Saunders .- 6. The Transformative Power of Breath: Music, Alternative Therapy, and Medieval Practices of Contemplation, Denis Renevey .- 7. A Breath of Fresh Air: Approaches to Environmental Health in Late Medieval Urban Communities, Carole Rawcliffe .- 8. ''Being Breathed'': From King Lear to Clinical Medicine, Katherine A. Craik and Stephen J. Chapman .- 9. ''Let lovers sigh out the rest'': Witnessing the Breath in the Early Modern Emotional Body, Naya Tsentourou .- 10. What is ''the breath of our nostrils''? Ruach and Neshamah in John Donne''s 1622 Gunpowder Day Sermon, Patrick Gray .- 11. Breathscapes: Natural Environments in Eighteenth-Century Physiology and Psychosomatics of Breathing, Rina Knoeff .- 12. ''Spoken from the impulse of the moment'': Epistolarity, Sensibility, and Breath in Frances Burney''s Evelina, Gillian Skinner .- 13. ''Eloquence and Oracle'': Tobacco in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature, Andrew Russell .- 14. Romantic Consumption: The Paradox of Fashionable Breath, Clark Lawlor .- 15. Endless Breath? The Pipe Organ and Immortality, Francis O''Gorman .- 16. London Fog as Food: From Pabulum to Poison, Christine L. Corton .- 17. ''Now-for a breath I tarry'': Breath, Desire and Queer Materialism at the fin de siècle, Fraser Riddell .- 18. The Forgotten Obvious: Breathing in Psychoanalysis, Arthur Rose and Oriana Walker .- 19. Mysterious Gear: Modernist Mountaineering, Oxygen Rigs, and the Politics of Breath, Abbie Garrington .- 20. Hearing the Form: Breath and the Structures of Poetry in Charles Olson and Paul Celan, David Fuller .- 21. A Panting Consciousness: Beckett, Breath, and Biocognitive Feedback, Marco Bernini .- 22. Syllabic Gasps: M. NourbeSe Philip and Charles Olson''s Poetic Conspiration, Stefanie Heine .- 23. Visualising the Ephemeral, Jayne Wilton .- 24. Breath-as Subject, in Form, in Performance: An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts., Michael Symmons Roberts, with David Fuller .- 25. Afterword. Breath-taking: Ethical Impulses for Breath Studies, Peter Adey . ​