{"product_id":"poetics-of-breathing-1","title":"Poetics of Breathing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comparative study of breath and breathing as a core poetic and compositional principle in modern literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreathing and its rhythms-liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous-have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production, and reception in alluding to and incorporating pneumatic rhythms, respiratory sound, and silent pauses. Through close readings of works by a series of pairs-Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; Robert Musil and Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath; and Paul Celan and Herta Müller-\u003ci\u003ePoetics of Breathing\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that each offers a different conception of literary or poetic breath as a precondition of writing. Presenting a challenge to historical and contemporary discourses that tie breath to the transcendent and the natural, Heine traces a decoupling of breath from its traditional association with \u003ci\u003elife\u003c\/i\u003e, and asks what literature might lie beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410528162136,"sku":"9781438483573","price":90.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781438483573_8446b0a4-e01c-4693-9da1-0244b62a216a.jpg?v=1777896074","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/poetics-of-breathing-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}