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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schleifer, Ronald, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health humanities.

Literature.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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..

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Creative Commons CC BY 3.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.

ISBN:

9781350335684

1350335681

9781350335714

1350335711

OCLC:

1353824581

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781350335714 doi.