Poetics of breathing :: modern literature's syncope /

A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature. Breathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuati...

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1. Verfasser: Heine, Stefanie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series, literature ... in theory.
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Zusammenfassung:A comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature. Breathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production, and reception in alluding to and incorporating pneumatic rhythms, respiratory sound, and silent pauses.. Through close readings of works by a series of pairs-Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, Robert Musil and Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath, and Paul Celan and Herta Müller-Poetics of Breathing suggests that each offers a different conception of literary or poetic breath as a precondition of writing. Presenting a challenge to historical and contemporary discourses that tie breath to the transcendent and the natural, Heine traces a decoupling of breath from its traditional association with life, and asks what literature might lie beyond. Stefanie Heine is Senior Researcher in Comparative Literature at the University of Zurich. Her previous books include Reading Breath in Literature (coauthored with Arthur Rose, Naya Tsentourou, Corinne Saunders, and Peter Garrett).
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xix, 418 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781438483597
1438483597

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