Literary studies and human flourishing /

"Of all humanities disciplines, none is more resistant to the program of positive psychology or more hostile to the prevailing discourse of human flourishing than literary studies. The approach taken in this volume of essays is neither to gloss over that antagonism nor to launch a series of bla...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	English, James F., 1958- (Editor), Love, Heather (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Series:	Humanities and human flourishing.
Subjects:	Literature > Philosophy. Conduct of life. Happiness. Well-being. Positive psychology. Morale pratique. Bonheur. Bien-être. Psychologie positive. ethics (philosophical concept) comfort (sensation) Ethics & Moral Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY. Political. Social. PSYCHOLOGY. Conduct of life Happiness Literature > Philosophy Positive psychology Well-being Biography, literature & literary studies. Literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Bibliotherapy and human flourishing / Leah Price
Bad habits on Goodreads? Eclecticism vs. genre-intolerance among online readers / James F. English and others
Flourishing spirits / Christopher Castiglia
Sage writing: facing reality in literature / David Russell
Literature of uplift / David James
Black ecological optimism and the problem of human flourishing / Sonya Posmentier
Literary study, and hermeneutics of disability, and the eudaimonic turn / Janet Lyon
Wise old fools: positive geropsychology and the poetics of later-life floundering / Scott Herring
Therapeutic redescription / Beth Blum
Merely ameliorative: reading, critical affect, and the project of repair / Heather Love.