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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Movements of Syncopnea -- Breath and Liminality -- Anaximenes: Breath, Air, Soul, Wind -- Inside and Outside -- Life and Death, Animate and Inanimate -- Breath as a Generative, Formative, and Constitutive Principle -- Air and Pneuma as Primary Substances -- Imaginations of a Primordial Wholeness of Breathing -- Breath and Language -- Prelinguistic Breathing -- Breath and the Development of Speech -- Breath, Voice, Rhythm -- Inspiration -- Transactual Relationality and Interdependence -- Prospect 2 Composed on the Breath: Authentic Voice, Embodiment, Innovation (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg) -- Ebb and Flow: Breathing and Composition -- Ancient Origins of the Breath-Stop -- Ginsberg and Quintilian -- Kerouac and Aristotle -- Smoke, Tapes, Typewriters: Respirational Writing Scenes -- "Dynamo'd smoke-cathedrals": Ginsberg's Recorded Breath -- "Rasping Smoke in a Dry Throat": Kerouac's Typewriter Fantasies -- Anxiety-Ecstasy: Inspiration -- "I don't inhale": Kerouac's Repression -- "Scored in Broken Breaths": Ginsberg's "Power" of Inspirational Weakness -- A Silent Propellant: Charles Olson 3 Generative Caesurae: Mediality, Rhythm, Affect (Robert Musil, Virginia Woolf ) -- "Animi velut respirant": Rhythm -- Flow and Segmentation -- The Breathing Pause in Ancient Rhetoric Revisited -- Text-Internal Generative Caesurae -- Formative Rhythm in Musil's and Woolf's Writing Process -- Respiratory Composition -- "Through the Middle": Respiratory Mediality -- Mediality and Invisibility -- Mediation, Representation, Processual Figurative Language -- Mediating Textual Airs -- Beyond the Other Condition -- Affect -- Journey to Italy: "It was their breathing" -- Opened and Allied Forms 4 Impossible Expiration: Reduction, Inanimate Voices, Persisting Bodies (Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath) -- Beckett: "Dull with breath. Endless breath. Endless ending breath" -- "L'air qui respire à travers mon cahier" -- "I'm the partition" -- "Stuffed full of these groans that choke" -- "With breath in his nostrils, it only remains for him to suffocate" -- Plath: "And still the lungs won't fill" -- "My god the iron lung" -- "The vivid tulips eat my oxygen" -- Cold Breath -- "Blown askew": Ecstatic Breath, Shattered Selves, Pneumatic Potentiality -- Gendering 5 Breath at Point Zero: Trauma, Commemoration, Haunting (Paul Celan, Herta Müller) -- Celan: "Pneumatisch berührbar" -- "Es verschlägt ihm-und auch uns-den Atem und das Wort": Breath in Celan's Notes, Essays, and Speeches -- Backgrounds of Celan's Poetics of Breathing -- Outline 1: Continuous Breathroutes -- Outline 2: Interrupted Breathroutes -- Inspiration-Conspiration -- Breath in Celan's Poetry and Translations -- "Das Glas der Ewigkeit-behaucht: Mein Atem, meine Wärme drauf": Celan's Mandelstam Translation -- Outline 3: The Pneumatically Touchable Poem I
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