Chronicles Of Disorder

Author : David Weisberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791491911

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Chronicles of Disorder by David Weisberg Pdf

Offering a striking new interpretation of Beckett's major fiction, Chronicles of Disorder demonstrates how Beckett's career as a writer developed in relation to the most enduring twentieth-century beliefs about the social function of literature, language, and narrative. Weisberg explores Beckett's emergence as a major novelist and intertwines sharp analyses of the relations between narrative form and social content in the key works of the Beckett canon. He considers how and why Beckett's work has become ahistorically—and incorrectly—subsumed into poststructuralist-inspired claims about language and narrative ideology, and he uses Beckett as a case study for tracing out the genesis of the opposition of "autonomous" and "committed" art, and how this opposition influenced the canonization of modernism in the 1950s and 1960s.

Author : R. B. Kershner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469616216

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Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature by R. B. Kershner Pdf

The sheer mass of allusion to popular literature in the writings of James Joyce is daunting. Using theories developed by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, R. B. Kershner analyzes how Joyce made use of popular literature in such early works as Stephen Hero, Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, and Exiles. Kershner also examines Joyce's use of rhetoric, the relationship between narrator and protagonist, and the interplay of voices, whether personal, literary, or subliterary, in Joyce's writing. In pointing out the prolific allusions in Joyce to newspapers, children's books, popular novels, and even pornography, Kershner shows how each of these contributes to the structures of consciousness of Joyce's various characters, all of whom write and rewrite themselves in terms of the texts they read in their youth. He also investigates the intertextual role of many popular books to which Joyce alludes in his writings and letters, or which he owned -- some well known, others now obscure. Kershner presents Joyce as a writer with a high degrees of social consciousness, whose writings highlight the conflicting ideologies of the Irish bourgeoisie. In exploring the social dimension of Joyce's writing, he calls upon such important contemporary thinkers as Jameston, Althusser, Barthes, and Lacan in addition to Bakhtin. Joyce's literary response to his historical situation was not polemical, Kershner argues, but, in Bakhtin's terms, dialogical: his writings represent an unremitting dialogue with the discordant but powerful voices of his day, many inaudible to us now. Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature places Joyce within the social and intellectual context of his time. Through stylistic, social, and ideological analysis, Kersner gives us a fuller grasp of the the complexity of Joyce's earlier writings.

Author : Jason Wegner
Publisher : Cherish Editions
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913615413

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Manic Man by Jason Wegner Pdf

Manic Man: How to Live Successfully with a Severe Mental Illness is an account of Jason Wegner's experiences living with a severe mental illness: bipolar I disorder. The story begins with an outline of Jason's normal life and then describes the hypomanic stage of his illness. The mania starts with his experience of taking the dangerous psychedelic drug LSD and takes off a few weeks later in Tanzania, Africa. He is in a full-blown manic episode while in Africa, and his behaviours and thoughts captured demonstrate this. Weeks of mania continued after he was home from Africa until he was tricked into going in an ambulance and taken to the hospital's emergency wing. He would be hospitalized in the acute psychiatry ward for 57 days, and seven months of depression follows his hospitalization. To lift himself out of his severe depression, his psychologist, Dr. Kerry Bernes, develops "The Octagon of Life," which is the eight areas of life that he gets Jason to focus on. Following the plan, Jason gets out of depression and experiences post-traumatic growth and becomes a more successful person than he was before his diagnosis.

Author : Vincent J. Cheng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521478596

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Joyce, Race, and Empire by Vincent J. Cheng Pdf

In this first full-length study of race and colonialism in the works of James Joyce, Vincent J. Cheng argues that Joyce wrote insistently from the perspective of a colonial subject of an oppressive empire, and that Joyce's representations of 'race' in its relationship to imperialism constitute a trenchant and significant political commentary, not only on British imperialism in Ireland, but on colonial discourses and imperial ideologies in general. Exploring the interdisciplinary space afforded by postcolonial theory, minority discourse, and cultural studies, and articulating his own cross-cultural perspective on racial and cultural liminality, Professor Cheng offers a ground-breaking study of the century's most internationally influential fiction writer, and of his suggestive and powerful representations of the cultural dynamics of race, power, and empire.

Author : Mark A. Wollaeger,Victor Luftig,Robert E. Spoo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Historicism
ISBN : 0472107348

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Joyce and the Subject of History by Mark A. Wollaeger,Victor Luftig,Robert E. Spoo Pdf

Eleven essays that open tantalizing questions about Joyce and history

Author : Mary-Rose McLaren
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859916462

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The London Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century by Mary-Rose McLaren Pdf

It also provides an annotated edition of the previously unpublished text from Bradford, West Yorkshire Archives MS 32D86/42, while a selection of the most crucial events recorded in the chronicles - such as the Rising of 1381 and Cade's rebellion - is presented in an appendix."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Wendell Affield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1945902086

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Barbara: Uncharted Course Through Borderline Personality Disorder by Wendell Affield Pdf

BARBARA is a riches-to-rags tale about an extraordinarily talented, troubled young woman. After Barbara's death in 20 I 0, the author, Wendell Affield, discovered thousands of documents locked in a rodent-infested chickenhouse. Having spent his childhood living with his mother's mental illness, Affield studies the contents in an effort to understand his mother's life and search for clues to his biological father. BARBARA, PARTS I and II, explore Barbara's two-decade downward spiral as she struggles with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Taught by the famous pianist, Emile Bosquet at Institut Droissard, Brussels, Belgium, Barbara's natural talent blossoms. Mouse-gnawed 1939 documents reveal Barbara's impulsive engagement (and possible marriage) in Poland, and her narrow escape from the Nazi invasion. Upon her return to New York, after dropping out of juilliard School, Barbara begins a decade of running from her problems, leaving a wake of failed marriages and rendezvous resulting in four children. Feeling abandoned by her family and searching for a new start, she posts an advertisement in Cupid's Columns that is answered by a bachelor farmer in northern Minnesota. BARBARA, Part III, chronicles the author's search for his biological father and the labyrinth leading to a breakthrough. Acceptance by his new-found family is an incredible testament to the power of love.

Author : Jane Wanklin
Publisher : Oakville, ON. : Mosaic Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Borderline personality disorder
ISBN : 0889626278

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Let Me Make It Good by Jane Wanklin Pdf

This book explores the world of a person diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and the havoc it has wreaked on her, her family and her friends. It is an attempt to make some kind of sense of it all and to come to terms with the past and the people involved in it. Many of the patients discussed cannot speak for themselves It is an attempt to make some kind of sense of it all and to come to terms with the past and the people involved in it.

Author : David Weisberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : OCLC:829773522

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Chronicles of Disorder by David Weisberg Pdf

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771008672

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Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood Pdf

In these ten dazzling interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences—the birth of a baby, divorce and remarriage, old age and death. With settings ranging from Toronto, northern Quebec, and rural Ontario, the stories begin in the present, as a couple no longer young situate themselves in a larger world no longer safe. Then the narrative goes back in time to the forties and moves chronologically forward toward the present. In “The Art of Cooking and Serving,” the twelve-year-old narrator does her best to accommodate the arrival of a baby sister. After she boldly declares her independence, we follow the narrator into young adulthood and then through a complex relationship. In “The Entities,” the story of two women haunted by the past unfolds. The magnificent last two stories reveal the heartbreaking old age of parents but circle back again to childhood, to complete the cycle. By turns funny, lyrical, incisive, tragic, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays Atwood’s celebrated storytelling gifts and unmistakable style to their best advantage. This is vintage Atwood, writing at the height of her powers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000031524599

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Twentieth-century Short Story Explication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Isabel Cranz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108830492

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Royal Illness and Kingship Ideology in the Hebrew Bible by Isabel Cranz Pdf

A systematic study of how royal illnesses in the Hebrew Bible are evaluated and integrated in literary and historiographical contexts.

Author : Henry Sussman,Christopher Devenney
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791447669

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Engagement and Indifference by Henry Sussman,Christopher Devenney Pdf

Explores the hidden political and ethical dimensions of the work of Samuel Beckett, an author who might otherwise be considered indifferent to such considerations.

Author : Earl G. Ingersoll
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809320169

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Engendered Trope in Joyce's Dubliners by Earl G. Ingersoll Pdf

Earl G. Ingersoll convincingly argues that his study is a "return to Lacan," just as Lacan himself believed his own work to be a "return to Freud." In this study of trope and gender in Dubliners, Ingersoll follows Lacan’s example by returning to explore more fully the usefulness of the earlier Lacanian insights stressing the importance of language. Returning to the semiotic—as opposed to the more traditional psychoanalytic—Lacan, Ingersoll opts for the Lacan who follows Roman Jakobson back to early Freud texts in which Freud happened upon the major structuring principles of similarity and displacement. Jakobson interprets these principles as metaphor and metonymy; Lacan employs these two tropes as the means of representing transformation and desire. Thus, psychic functions meet literary texts in the space of linguistic representation through the signifier: metaphor is a signifier for a repressed signified, while metonymy is a signifier that displaces another. Rejecting traditional psychoanalytic readings of Dubliners, Ingersoll’s New Psychoanalytic Criticism embraces Shoshana Felman’s view that psychoanalysis is not a body of truths to be applied to literature but rather a literature in itself to be read intertextually with what we more conventionally consider literary texts. In its theoretical framework, this study is Lacanian not by following Lacan as the traditional psychoanalytic critic would follow Freud or Jung as the master explicator of the literary text but by doing Lacan. Ingersoll credits Lacan not as the scientist Freud tried and failed to become but as the poet Freud was, especially in his earlier period. Basing his idea of the connections between gender and the tropes in the writings of feminist theorists and critics such as Luce Irigaray, Jane Gallop, and Barbara Johnson, Ingersoll argues that sex and gender are not necessarily linked. In Dublin, the capital of a patriarchal society, Joyce reveals the relevance of the opposition between metaphor/motion/empowerment as the "masculine" and metonymy/confinement/vulnerability as the "feminine." In this context, metaphor must be privileged over metonymy as "masculinity" is privileged over "femininity"— not because what is is right but because Joyce is describing a world that readers have always recognized as morally and spiritually deficient.

Author : June Alexander,Janet Treasure
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136723940

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A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders by June Alexander,Janet Treasure Pdf

While many aspects of eating disorders remain a mystery, there is growing evidence that collaboration is an essential element for treatment success. This book emphasises and explains the importance of family involvement as part of a unified team approach towards treatment and recovery. A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders draws on up-to-date evidence based research as well as case studies and clinical vignettes to illustrate the seriousness of eating disorders and the impact on both the sufferer and their loved ones. Areas of discussion include: current research including genetic factors, socio-cultural influences and early intervention clinical applications such as family based dialectical and cognitive behavioural treatments treatment developments for both adolescents and adults with a range of eating disorders building collaborative alliances at all levels for treatment and ongoing recovery. With contributions from key international figures in the field, this book will be a valuable resource for students and mental health professionals including family doctors, clinicians, nurses, family therapists, dieticians and social workers.