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This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, asks the question: what do literary scholars contribute to the often science-focused fields related to happiness and flourishing? The essays in this volume reflect on how the kinds of...
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Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel
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This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, asks the question: what do literary scholars contribute to the often science-focused fields related to happiness and flourishing? The essays in this volume reflect on how the kinds of literary research the contributors themselves are doing, the kinds of work to which they are personally committed, might become part of an interdisciplinary conversation about human flourishing.
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Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Oxford
This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, asks the question: what do literary scholars contribute to the often science-focused fields related to happiness and flourishing? The essays in this volume reflect on how the kinds of...
more
This volume, part of the Humanities and Human Flourishing series, asks the question: what do literary scholars contribute to the often science-focused fields related to happiness and flourishing? The essays in this volume reflect on how the kinds of literary research the contributors themselves are doing, the kinds of work to which they are personally committed, might become part of an interdisciplinary conversation about human flourishing. Cover -- Series -- Literary Studies and Human Flourishing -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Literary Studies and Human Flourishing -- 1. Bibliotherapy and Human Flourishing -- 2. Bad Habits on Goodreads? Eclecticism vs. Genre-Intolerance among Online Readers -- 3. Flourishing Spirits -- 4. Sage Writing: Facing Reality in Literature -- 5. Literature of Uplift -- 6. Black Ecological Optimism and the Problem of Human Flourishing -- 7. Literary Study, the Hermeneutics of Disability, and the Eudaimonic Turn -- 8. Wise Old Fools: Positive Geropsychology and the Poetics of Later-Life Floundering -- 9. Therapeutic Redescription -- 10. Merely Ameliorative: Reading, Critical Affect, and the Project of Repair -- Index.
