Literature and Consolation
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9781474456555 |
| Open Library | OL25798902W |
| Total publications | 3 |
| Coverage period | 2021 - 2021 |
| Language | EN |
"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."--
Literature and Consolation
"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 in…
Literature and Consolation
The Classical Regime of Literary Comfort
This chapter starts from a close reading of the famous scene of consolation between Achilles and Priamos in the Iliad’ s closing book (Book 24). The logic of ‘eleos’ that governs the scene is related to what in the book is identified as the ‘classical regime of consolation’, derived from a number of consolatory writings that date from Antiquity (Crantor, Cicero, Seneca, ...). In the chapter’s closing section the classical regime of comfort is rel…
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Literature and Consolation
"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 in…
Literature and Consolation
The Classical Regime of Literary Comfort
This chapter starts from a close reading of the famous scene of consolation between Achilles and Priamos in the Iliad’ s closing book (Book 24). The logic of ‘eleos’ that governs the scene is related to what in the book is identified as the ‘classical regime of consolation’, derived from a number of consolatory writings that date from Antiquity (Crantor, Cicero, Seneca, ...). In the chapter’s closing section the classical regime of comfort is rel…