Literary and Cultural Studies - Second Edition
Thirteen new articles provide the best of contemporary literary and cultural criticism, keeping this book current and in line with influential trends. Included are the latest works in gender studies, feminist theory, post-colonial studies, cultural studies and new historicism.
Exploring the multifaceted nature of pain, this book integrates insights from medical science, psychology, and the humanities to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Ronald Schleifer delves into the complexities of pain and offers potential strategies for managing its most intense experiences. This work serves as a valuable resource for courses in medicine, healthcare, counseling psychology, and social work, making it an essential addition for those seeking to comprehend and address the challenges of pain.
The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself.During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the “health humanities” has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical work-the “worldly work”-of healthcare. Such a project aims at developing healthcare practitioners who bring greater care to those who come to them ailing or in fear or faced with terrible suffering. Literary Studies and Well-Being turns this inside out by examining the intergenerational caretaking of healthcare in a manner which allows us to comprehend the nature and discipline of literary studies in new ways.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Oklahoma.