Literature and Consolation: Fictions of Comfort

ISBN-13: 9781474456562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

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Acknowledgments; Introduction: Fictions of Comfort; 1. The classical regime of literary comfort. From Homer to Aristotle; 2. The Christian Regime of Literary Comfort. From Boethius to Dante; 3. Toward a Modern Regime of Literary Comfort. Shakespeare and the Failure to Console; 4. The Religion of Despair. George Sand and Gustave Flaubert on Reading and Writing; 5. Novels of Comfort. Woolf , Winnicott and the Work of Consolation; 6. Fragments of a Consolatory Discourse. Sontag, Riley, Proust, Barthes; Epilogue: The Library of Comfort; Bibliography; Index.