Description
Book SynopsisThe 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 workthe worldly workof 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
Trade Review
This book is a beautiful discussion of what it means to have lived experiences, how humans use these events to understand the narrative that is their life, and how literature can influence the definition of wellness in our modern society. I would encourage anyone interested in living well or helping others to do so to pick up this book and take the chance to expand their knowledge, deepen their experience, and start a conversation about well-being. * World Literature Today *
Table of 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
