Kelda Green 
Rethinking Therapeutic Reading [PDF ebook] 
Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot

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‘Rethinking Therapeutic Reading’ uses a combination of literary criticism and experimental psychology to examine the ways in which literature can create therapeutic spaces in which to do personal thinking. It reconsiders the role that serious literary reading might play in the real world, reclaiming literature as a vital tool for dealing with human troubles. 

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Introduction; Part One: Four Models; I. Senecan Tragedy and Stoic Philosophy; II. Therapy and the Essay: Montaigne, after Seneca; III. Therapy and Poetry: Wordsworth, after Seneca; IV. Therapy and the Novel: George Eliot, after Wordsworth; Part Two: Three Experiments; V. Experiment One: First Impressions; VI. Experiment Two: Slowing Down and Tuning In; VII. Experiment Three: Writing Back; Conclusion; Index.

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Kelda Green completed her Ph D at the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Research into Reading, Literature and Society in 2018.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781785273827 ● File size 8.2 MB ● Publisher Anthem Press ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2020 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8129307 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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