TY - BOOK AU - Heine,Stephanie TI - Poetics of breathing: modern literature's syncope T2 - Suny series, literature . . . in theory SN - 9781438483597 AV - PN56 .P648 2021 KW - Respiration in literature KW - Rhythm in literature KW - Literary style KW - Respiration KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2558459&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -