Fathers And Mothers In Literature

Author : Henk Hillenaar,Walter Schönau
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 9051837143

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Fathers and Mothers in Literature by Henk Hillenaar,Walter Schönau Pdf

Many people as a child dream of having other parents: a gentler mother, a kinder or stronger father, a more illustrious family? According to our secret dreams, were not most of us born sons or daughters of a king, a president, a champion? Freud termed this the Family Romance. We all carry these secret scenarios in ourselves. Usually they are long forgotten but nevertheless remain alive in the stories we tell ourselves and relate to others. Therefore the Family Romance is one of the keys to the understanding of literature. The French literary critic Marthe Robert developed a fundamental theory of Freud. In 1972 she presented in her publication Origins of the Novel a new method to analyse the novel and to understand its history. Her study offers a proof of the relevance of Freud's views and it invites us to expand on its ideas and suggestions. It is in this perspective that the authors of this volume write about the historical and mythical figures Mary, Medea, Electra, Kaspar Hauser and Sir Gawain. Other articles are devoted to the Family Romance in the works of the following authors: Barthes, Beckett, Camus, Drieu la Rochelle, Faulkner, Flaubert, Goethe, Claire Goll, Jutta Heinrich, Gombrowicz, Greene, Kafka, LÉvy, Modiano, Petronius, Sartre, Vigny.

Author : Siri Hustvedt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781982176402

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Mothers, Fathers, and Others by Siri Hustvedt Pdf

In this essay collection in which feminist philosophy meets family memoir, the novelist and scholar moves effortlessly between stories of her mother, grandmother, and daughter to connect mothers to the broader meanings of maternity in a culture shaped by misogyny and fantasies of paternal authority.

Author : A. Furutan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Child rearing
ISBN : 0853980950

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Mothers, Fathers, and Children by A. Furutan Pdf

Author : Cathleen D. Cahill
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807877739

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Federal Fathers and Mothers by Cathleen D. Cahill Pdf

Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service (USIS), now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to "civilize" and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers, Cathleen Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the agency during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cahill shows how the USIS pursued a strategy of intimate colonialism, using employees as surrogate parents and model families in order to shift Native Americans' allegiances from tribal kinship networks to Euro-American familial structures and, ultimately, the U.S. government.

Author : Wade Hudson,Cheryl Willis Hudson
Publisher : Sankofa Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African American artists
ISBN : 0940975602

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In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers by Wade Hudson,Cheryl Willis Hudson Pdf

"The work of more than forty distinguished writers and visual artists who share memories and images in praise of family and African-American ancestors."--Jacket.

Author : Julia Fierro
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466839229

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Cutting Teeth by Julia Fierro Pdf

One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. Nicole, the hostess, struggles to keep her OCD behaviors unnoticed. Stay-at-home dad Rip grapples with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child, forcing him to disrupt the life he loves. Allie, one half of a two-mom family, can't stop imagining ditching her wife and kids in favor of her art. Tiffany, comfortable with her amazing body but not so comfortable in the upper-middle class world the other characters were born into, flirts dangerously, and spars with her best friend Leigh, a blue blood secretly facing financial ruin and dependent on the magical Tibetan nanny everyone else covets. Throughout the weekend, conflicts intensify and painful truths surface. Friendships and alliances crack, forcing the house party to confront a new order.Cutting Teeth is about the complex dilemmas of early midlife—the vicissitudes of friendship, of romantic and familial love, and of sex. It's about class tension, status hunger, and the unease of being in possession of life's greatest bounty while still wondering, is this as good as it gets? And, perhaps most of all, Julia Fierro's warm and unpretentious debut explores the all-consuming love we feel for those we need most, and the sacrifice and compromise that underpins that love.

Author : Margret Fine-Davis,Jeanne Fagnani,Dino Giovannini,Lis Højgaard,Hilary Clarke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402025389

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Fathers and Mothers: Dilemmas of the Work-Life Balance by Margret Fine-Davis,Jeanne Fagnani,Dino Giovannini,Lis Højgaard,Hilary Clarke Pdf

At the risk of sounding frivolous, there is a good case to be made for the argument that women constitute the revolutionary force behind contemporary social and economic transformation. It is in large part the changing role of women that explains the new household structure, our altered demographic behaviour, the growth of the service economy and, as a consequence, the new dilemmas that the advanced societies face. Most European countries have failed to adapt adequately to the novel challenges and the result is an increasingly serious disequilibrium. Women explicitly desire economic independence and the societal collective, too, needs to maximise female employment. And yet, this runs up against severe incompatibility problems that then result in very low birth rates. Our aging societies need more kids, yet fertility levels are often only half of what citizens define as their desired number of children. No matter what happens in the next decade, we are doomed to have exceedingly small cohorts that, in turn, must shoulder the massive burden of supporting a retired baby-boom generation. Hence it is tantamount that tomorrow’s adults be maximally productive and, yet, the typical EU member state invests very little in its children and families.

Author : Leslie Leyland Fields,Jill Hubbard
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780849922930

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Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers by Leslie Leyland Fields,Jill Hubbard Pdf

“If our families are to flourish, we will need to learn and practice ways of forgiving those who have had the greatest impact upon us: our mothers and fathers.” Do you struggle with the deep pain of a broken relationship with a parent? Leslie Leyland Fields and Dr. Jill Hubbard invite you to walk with them as they explore the following questions: What does the Bible say about forgiveness? Why must we forgive at all? How do we honor those who act dishonorably toward us, especially when those people are as influential as our parents? Can we ever break free from the “sins of our fathers”? What does forgiveness look like in the lives of real parents and children? Does forgiveness mean I have to let an estranged parent back into my life? Is it possible to forgive a parent who has passed away? Through the authors’ own compelling personal stories combined with a fresh look at the Scriptures, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers illustrates and instructs in the practice of authentic forgiveness, leading you away from hate and hurt toward healing, hope, and freedom. "A call to very hard, but very vital, work of the soul." —Dr. Henry Cloud, leadership expert, psychologist, and best-selling author "Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers is essential reading for anyone who wants to deal with those hurts in a constructive, healing, and God-honoring manner." —Jim Daly, president, Focus on the Family "Leslie Leyland Fields and Jill Hubbard take us into raw, messy stories so we can be transformed by that mysterious and painful grace in the force called forgiveness." —Scot McKnight, Northern Seminary

Author : Patricia Berry,Mary Watkins,James Hillman,C. G. Jung
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0882143727

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Fathers and Mothers by Patricia Berry,Mary Watkins,James Hillman,C. G. Jung Pdf

Archetypal, personal, and clinical analysis reaches toward the poetic and mythic as some of the best writers around today imagine topics that are all too often talked about with such literalism from the offices of psychoanalysts to afternoon talk shows.

Author : C. B. Christiansen
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Divorce
ISBN : PSU:000051575120

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My Mother's House, My Father's House by C. B. Christiansen Pdf

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Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307760760

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Founding Mothers & Fathers by Mary Beth Norton Pdf

Much like A Midwife's Tale and The Unredeemed Captive, this novel is about power relationships in early American society, religion, and politics--with insights into the initial development and operation of government, the maintenance of social order, and the experiences of individual men and women.

Author : Ginny Lowe Connors
Publisher : Grayson Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0967555426

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Essential Love by Ginny Lowe Connors Pdf

In this inspiring collection of vibrant poems, contemporary American poets speak out on a universal theme: the unbreakable bond shared by parents and their children. With kindness, nostalgia, forgiveness and love, poets recall their parents. Book jacket.

Author : Danielle Marcotte
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1771472014

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Mom, Dad, Our Books, and Me by Danielle Marcotte Pdf

A young boys revels in learning to read and describes how everyone else around him enjoys reading too.

Author : Ruby Soames
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504094115

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Mothers, Fathers and Lovers by Ruby Soames Pdf

Ever wondered what it’s like to date an actor who hits the big time? When Stella Tyler’s boyfriend shoots from penniless waiter to Hollywood star, her life nosedives from city lawyer to lovesick dogwalker. It’s all over the internet that Stella’s boyfriend, Joseph West, has just proposed to his co-star but Stella is the last to find out. On the heels of heartbreak, Stella rejects the offer of a partnership at her London law firm and vows to spend her time rescuing animals instead. Walking her dog in the park one cold Sunday morning, Stella watches a middle-aged aristocrat getting married to a woman half his age who he barely seems to know. She is convinced the groom is the father who abandoned her at birth and follows the couple to Barbados on their honeymoon believing that if she confronts him, she can set everything right. Meanwhile, it’s rumored that there’s another wedding taking place in the Caribbean—Oscar nominee Joseph West and his new leading lady . . .

Author : Rick Moody
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504027670

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The Ice Storm by Rick Moody Pdf

The national bestseller and basis for the Ang Lee film is a “powerful” novel of two troubled families during a blizzard in 1970s suburban Connecticut (Newsday). A potentially devastating blizzard approaches New Canaan, Connecticut, while internal forces of desire, frustration, and ennui threaten to tear apart two quintessentially affluent, suburban families. Elena Hood rightfully suspects her husband, Benjamin, is having an affair with neighbor Janey Williams, while Benjamin resents Elena and his mounting feelings of ineptitude. As the snow begins to fall, Benjamin and Elena, as well as Janey and her husband, attend a neighborhood “key party,” where they and other respectable suburbanites agree to go home with whomever’s keys they draw from a bowl. Meanwhile, the Hoods’ and Williams’s teenage children are caught up in their own experimentations with sex and drugs as they test the boundaries of their structured upbringing. With author Rick Moody’s sharp eye for the nuances of suburban life and allusions to 1970s America from Watergate to the Fantastic Four, the novel’s landscape is vivid and immersive. This timeless, unforgettable novel is a compassionate portrayal of flawed characters and reflects Rick Moody’s sharp eye for the contradictions of suburban life. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Rick Moody including rare images from the author’s personal collection.