Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456555.003.0008
Jürgen Pieters
In the book’s brief epilogue, a reading of Friedrich Frotzel’s painting ‘The Old Bookcase’ provides the occasion for a review of the book’s central argument.
在本书简短的结语中，阅读弗里德里希·弗罗策尔(Friedrich Frotzel)的画作《旧书柜》(the Old Bookcase)，为回顾本书的中心论点提供了机会。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456555.003.0007
Jürgen Pieters
In the book’s final chapter, a discussion of Will Schwalbe’s The End of Your Life Book Club, a bibliotherapeutic memoir of the author’s mother’s end-of-life phase leads to a discussion of related writings by David Rieff (on his mother, Susan Sontag), Denise Riley (Time Lived, Without its Flow, an essay on the death of her son Jacob) and Roland Barthes’ Mourning Diary, written at the occasion of his mother’s death. The analyses of these writings build on the previous chapters’ analysis of the modern regime of consolation.
在书的最后一章，对威尔·施瓦尔贝的《你生命的终结》读书俱乐部(the End of Your Life book Club)的讨论，引出了对大卫·里夫(David Rieff)(关于他的母亲苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag))、丹尼斯·莱利(Denise Riley)(《时光流逝，没有流动》，一篇关于她儿子雅各布之死的文章)和罗兰·巴特(Roland Barthes)在母亲去世之际写的《哀悼日记》的讨论。对这些著作的分析建立在前几章对现代安慰制度的分析之上。
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456555.003.0003
Jürgen Pieters
Taking its cue from two recent bibliotherapeutic publications on Dante (by Joseph Luzzi and Rod Dreher, respectively), the chapter tries to identify Dante’s central ideas on the consolatory effects of literature, which it takes as characteristic of the Christian regime of literary comfort. These ideas are illustrated in a reading of Purgatorio 2 (the Casella scene) and traced back to Dante’s fascination with Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae, whose famous opening scene is also analysed: Lady Philosophy driving away the Muses of Poetry. The chapter also discusses Boethius and Dante’s interest in the figure of Orpheus, iconic consoler.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456555.003.0005
Jürgen Pieters
The chapter starts off from a reading of Julian Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot, which it considers as a reflection on the limits of bibliotherapy. The novel is then related to the correspondence between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert (Winter 1875), in which the two writer friends take opposing sides in the debate on the consolatory purposes and effects of literature. Sand famously reproaches Flaubert of only being interested in the production of ‘desolation’.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456555.003.0004
Jürgen Pieters
The chapter starts off from Laura Bates’ Shakespeare saved my Life, the story of murder convict Larry Newton’s salutary encounter with the works of Shakespeare. It then moves on to a sustained reading of a number of scenes in four different plays by Shakespeare in which attempts at consolation significantly fail (Hamlet, Richard II, Measure for Measure and Romeo and Juliet). Drawing on writings by German philosopher Hans Blumenberg and Swedish author Stig Dagerman, the experience of failed consolation and inconsolability are identified as typical of the modern regime of comfort.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456555.003.0002
Jürgen Pieters
This chapter starts from a close reading of the famous scene of consolation between Achilles and Priamos in the Iliad’s closing book (Book 24). The logic of ‘eleos’ that governs the scene is related to what in the book is identified as the ‘classical regime of consolation’, derived from a number of consolatory writings that date from Antiquity (Crantor, Cicero, Seneca, …). In the chapter’s closing section the classical regime of comfort is related to Plato and Aristotle’s analyses of literary writing, the infamous discussion on ‘mimesis’.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456555.003.0006
Jürgen Pieters
The bibliotherapeutic publication that is central to this chapter is Katharine Smyth’s All the Lives we ever Lived, a touching memoir of her father’s illness in which the reading of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse provides the necessary consolation. The topic of literature’s consolatory powers is related in this chapter to Donald Winnicott’s analyses of ‘comforters’, what the British pyschoanalist labels ‘transitional objects’. The chapter also engages in a discussion of what David James calls ‘discrepant solace’.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456555.003.0001
Jürgen Pieters
The introduction to the book focuses on the current wave of bibliotherapy (for instance, Berthoud and Elderkin’s The Novel Cure) and singles out a number of fundamental questions with respect to the relationship between literature and consolation that underlie this reading practice. Taking its cue from a number of recent bibliotherapeutic writings, the introduction identifies the book’s central argument and highlights its structure.
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