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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647234303321

Autore

Schleifer Ronald

Titolo

Literary studies and well-being : structures of experience in the worldly work of literature and healthcare / / Ronald Schleifer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2022

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2022

ISBN

9781350335684

1350335681

9781350335714

1350335711

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Health humanities

Literature

Well-being

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1:  Thesis and Contexts --Chapter 2:  Introduction: On the Discipline of Literary Studies --Chapter 3:  Disciplined Knowledge and the Experience of Meaning --Chapter 4:  The Nature of Value and the Nature of Language --Chapter 5:  The Discipline of Death --Chapter 6:  Action and Ethics in Literary Studies --Works Cited.

Sommario/riassunto

The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself. During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the "health humanities" has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical work - the "worldly work" - of healthcare.  Such a project aims at developing healthcare practitioners who bring greater care to those who come to them ailing or in fear or faced with terrible suffering.  Literary Studies and Well-Being turns this inside out by examining the intergenerational caretaking of healthcare in a manner which allows us to comprehend the nature and discipline



of literary studies in new ways. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Oklahoma..