Tragedy, it turns out, is a powerful literary form for dealing with posttraumatic fear.
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Got a Problem? Call a Poet
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Angus Fletcher, Aristotle, catharsis, literary technique, Oedipus, philosophy, posttraumatic fear, PTSD, Rhetoric, Sigmund Freud, sophists, Sophocles, Wonderworks Comments closed
Bookshops as Warehouses of Explosives
Morley’s novel “The Haunted Bookstore” is a powerful advertisement for reading.
Literature, the Best Medicine
A Guardian article is filled with instances of literature alleviating the suffering of patients suffering from mental illness.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Ceremony, D. H. Lawrence, George Herbert, Leslie Marmon Silko Comments closed
Literature for Transforming Lives
A new book on Literature as Transformation conducts eye-opening interviews with readers whose lives literature has changed.
Tough Lives Need Poetry’s Toughness
A new book on the psychology of life-changing lit has alerted me to some great passages.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Love (3)", George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jan Mukarovsky, Jeanette Winterson, T. S. Eliot Comments closed
Jane Austen Will Cure What Ails You
Jane Austen therapy has been prescribed for war vets, London civilians under attack, and people hiding out from Covid.
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How Novels Aided the World War I Effort
During World War I, librarians sought to supported wounded men with fiction. Some preferred love stories to action adventure fiction.
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Bibliotherapy Is Having a Moment
A new book indicates that bibliotherapy may be having a moment.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Buried Life", "Episode", D. H. Lawrence, Inger Hagerup, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Mary O'Hara, Matthew Arnold, My Friend Flicka Comments closed
The Fear of Not Reading All We Should
Many readers have they anxiety that they haven’t read all the books they should have. Bibliotherapists claim that they can offer relief.