Literary Studies and Well-Being: Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare

by Ronald Schleifer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350335673
• ISBN13: 9781350335677
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"