The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude

Professor Julian Stern (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

218 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34805-9 (ISBN)

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This book presents a thematic analysis of various aspects of solitude, silence and loneliness, from the ancient world to the present day, explored thematically with consideration to the links between aloneness to other social and political issues. The themes include exile (expulsion from a community), ecstasy (getting ‘out of oneself’) and enstasy (being comfortable within oneself), to the Romantic idea of the artist as solitary. There is work on aloneness in and through nature, especially the importance of natural settings for positive experiences of solitude. A central theme is alienation and its emotions, with the idea of loneliness and the rejected self being a more modern experience. The book explores modernism and postmodernism as presenting new forms of solitude in the twentieth century, and how, more recently, there have been attempts to ‘recover’ the self, through therapeutic uses of the arts. All of these types and experiences of aloneness are described through the lenses of artistic, literary and musical forms of expression, as aloneness is not only explored and articulated through these art forms, but is in many ways created through these art forms.

Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. He is President of ISRS: the International Society for Research on Solitude.

Series Editors’ Foreword
Introduction: Creativity and Solitude in History
1. Solitudes of Exile
2. Ecstasy and Enstasy, Successful and Failed
3. The [Romantic] Artist as Solitary
4. Alone in Nature
5. Alienation and its Emotions
6. Loneliness and the Rejected Self
7. Modernism to Postmodernism and the Recovered Self
8. Conclusion: New Solitudes for Old
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Solitude Studies
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 232 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-34805-8 / 1350348058
ISBN-13	978-1-350-34805-9 / 9781350348059
Zustand	Neuware