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Rethinking Therapeutic Reading Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press Rethinking Therapeutic Reading Lessons from Seneca, Montaigne, Wordsworth and George Eliot Kelda Green With a foreword by Professor Michael Wood Published online by Cambridge University Press Anthem Press An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company www.anthempress.com This edition first published in UK and USA 2020 by ANTHEM PRESS 75– 76 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA, UK or PO Box 9779, London SW19 7ZG, UK and 244 Madison Ave #116, New York, NY 10016, USA Copyright © Kelda Green 2020 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Library of Congress Control Number: 2020936291 ISBN- 13: 978- 1- 78527- 381- 0 (Hbk) ISBN- 10: 1- 78527- 381- 7 (Hbk) This title is also available as an e- book. Published online by Cambridge University Press Written with love for my parents and with thanks to Professor Philip Davis Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press CONTENTS List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Introduction 1 Part I Four Models 1. Senecan Tragedy and Stoic Philosophy 9 2. Therapy and the Essay: Montaigne, after Seneca 27 3. Therapy and Poetry: Wordsworth, after Seneca 41 4. Therapy and the Novel: George Eliot, after Wordsworth 67 Part II Three Experiments 5. Experiment One: A First Reading 99 6. Experiment Two: Slowing Down and Tuning In 129 7. Experiment Three: Writing Back 163 Conclusion 181 Bibliography 187 Index 193 Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press ILLUSTRATIONS Figures 5.1 The three passages used in experiment one 104 5.2 Graph showing the most frequently quoted lines of poetry extract one 107 5.3 The most frequently quoted sections of poetry extract one 108 5.4 Graphs showing the order of direct quotations used in each participant response to poetry extract one 110 5.5 Graph showing the most frequently quoted lines of poetry extract two 112 5.6 The most frequently quoted sections of poetry extract two 113 5.7 Graphs showing the order of direct quotations used in each participant response to poetry extract two 114 5.8 Verbs used in the first person in response to the news article 121 5.9 Verbs used in the first person in response to the poetry extracts 121 7.1 The letters written by each participant in experiment three 169 Tables 5.1 Experiment one: Sample information 103 5.2 The order of direct quotations in participant A2’s response to poetry extract one 108 6.1 Experiment two: Sample information 131 7.1 Experiment three: Sample information 165 Published online by Cambridge University Press Published online by Cambridge University Press
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