Literature and Consolation

Fictions of Comfort

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvJürgen Pieters,Belgium) Pieters, Jurgen (Professor of Literary Theory, University of Ghent

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Provides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literatureHistory of the concept of consolationReadings of canonical works (Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Flaubert)Critical analysis of bibliotherapyChapter on contemporary writers and thinkers (Roland Barthes, Denise Riley, Julian Barnes) who have written on 'grief'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.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-07
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt484 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474456562

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fictions of Comfort1. The classical regime of literary comfort. From Homer to Aristotle2. The Christian Regime of Literary Comfort. From Boethius to Dante3. Toward a Modern Regime of Literary Comfort. Shakespeare and the Failure to Console4. The Religion of Despair. George Sand and Gustave Flaubert on Reading and Writing 5. Novels of Comfort. Woolf , Winnicott and the Work of Consolation6. Fragments of a Consolatory Discourse. Sontag, Riley, Proust, BarthesEpilogue: The Library of ComfortBibliographyIndex

In a year where many have needed the comfort reading fiction can bring, Pieters' exposition of the contemporary interest in bibliotherapy, which he grounds in detailed historical analysis from Homer to the present day, offers a warm and persuaive argument for the power of literary texts to console. [...] Pieters’ book therefore constitutes an offer to the reader that might confirm their own hopes about the power of literature; a power that is all too often denied in the face of more easily provable forms of care.

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