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"In a year where many have needed the comfort reading fiction can bring, Pieters' exposition of the contemporary interest in bibliotherapy, which he grounds in detailed historical analysis from Homer to the present day, offers a warm and persuaive argument for the power of literary texts to console. [...] Pieters' book therefore constitutes an offer to the reader that might confirm their own hopes about the power of literature; a power that is all too often denied in the face of more easily provable forms of care.--Sophie Eager, Univeristy of London ""Barthes Studies"" In his remarkably informed and sensitive study, J�rgen Pieters proposes an exceptional long-term perspective on the diverse uses of literature throughout centuries and this allows us to understand on a deeper level how and why contemporary literature can now claim what could be called a new consoling turn.--William Marx, Coll�ge de France"

In a year where many have needed the comfort reading fiction can bring, Pieters' exposition of the contemporary interest in bibliotherapy, which he grounds in detailed historical analysis from Homer to the present day, offers a warm and persuaive argument for the power of literary texts to console. [...] Pieters' book therefore constitutes an offer to the reader that might confirm their own hopes about the power of literature; a power that is all too often denied in the face of more easily provable forms of care.--Sophie Eager, Univeristy of London ""Barthes Studies"" In his remarkably informed and sensitive study, Jürgen Pieters proposes an exceptional long-term perspective on the diverse uses of literature throughout centuries and this allows us to understand on a deeper level how and why contemporary literature can now claim what could be called a new consoling turn.--William Marx, Collège de France

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Jürgen Pieters teaches Literary Theory at Ghent University, Belgium. He is the author of Moments of Negotiation. The New Historicism of Stephen Greenblatt (Amsterdam University Press, 2001) and Speaking With the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History (Edinburgh University Press, 2005).

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