From Dreams To Despair

Author : J K L Scott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004649125

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From Dreams to Despair by J K L Scott Pdf

This book is a study of the novels of Boris Vian, the artist, writer, jazz musician and occasional pornographer. Primarily known for his classic novel of doomed young love, L'Ecume des jours, and the pseudonymously-written erotic roman noir J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, his work displays a bewildering variety of styles, genres and narrative voices. The purpose of this book is to show that Vian's novels in fact display an overall thematic coherence, dramatizing the growth of the individual from childhood to adolescent idealism and ultimate adult disillusion. Vian is a highly popular author in France: this book seeks to prove that he is also a serious literary artist. The wordplay, pastiche and parody which fill his texts should not blind the reader to the deeper themes and issues which lie behind them, just as the protean character of his style should not be allowed to conceal the single integrated narrative which runs throughout his novels.

Author : Gustavus Hindman Miller,Sigmund Freud,Henri Bergson
Publisher : Wellfleet
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781577152842

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The Dictionary of Dreams by Gustavus Hindman Miller,Sigmund Freud,Henri Bergson Pdf

The Dictionary of Dreams provides the necessary tools to interpret almost every dream object and its hidden meaning to better understand what your subconscious is telling you. Now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go instruction. Dreams can be fun and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still again, they can be an endless combination of both. From spitting teeth out (a sign of aging), to creepy, crawly spiders (a sign that one feels like an outsider), dreams can mean much more to us once we learn how to decipher their hidden meanings. Whether positive or negative, The Dictionary of Dreams gives you all the tools, symbols, and their true meanings to translate our cryptic nightly images. Starting with selections from classic texts like Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller, one of the first authors to complete a thorough study of all the symbols that appear in our dreamscape, this updated edition features revisions (such as the addition of cell phones, computers, televisions, and more) of Miller’s original interpretations to bring the book up to speed with our modern life.

Author : David Christie Murray
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547324034

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Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Despair's Last Journey" by David Christie Murray. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : J. K. L. Scott
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9042003103

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From Dreams to Despair by J. K. L. Scott Pdf

This book is a study of the novels of Boris Vian, the artist, writer, jazz musician and occasional pornographer. His work displays a bewildering variety of styles, genres and narrative voices. The purpose of this book is to show that Vian's novels in fact display an overall thematic coherence, dramatizing the growth of the individual from childhood to adolescent idealism and ultimate adult disillusion.

Author : David Waddell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385443273

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The Stability of the Covenant of Grace, and Other Poems by David Waddell Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Ian Whates
Publisher : Duncan Baird Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857660893

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City of Hope & Despair by Ian Whates Pdf

THEY CALL IT THE CITY OF A HUNDRED ROWS. The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below, and demons are said to dwell in the Upper Heights. Forced to flee the city, Tom and Kat find themselves pursued through a merciless land but also find friends and allies in the most unusual places. More fabulous storytelling in a rich fantasy world of adventure, alchemy and magic.

Author : Anne Case,Angus Deaton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691217062

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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case,Angus Deaton Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New Statesman Book to Read From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.

Author : Roman Payne
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780615186504

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Hope and Despair by Roman Payne Pdf

A feast of sensuality, Payne's third epic novel narrates the story of the beautiful young Nadja, and her brooding lover Nikolai, as the two come of age in a springtime garden. When their world of earthly delights fades with the dying season, the two are exiled from their pastoral romance into a fiery world of seedy urban haunts, intoxicated dreams and electric lights. When tragedy heralds the birth of a new day, light is shed on everyone's fate as the greatest adventure of all begins: a cunning swindler sets off on a heroic voyage to find the love of his youth. Through tears of hope and despair, the landscape of this novel unfolds before us in a vast panorama of poetic prose, delighting the senses and the imagination about what is possible, what is beautiful, and what is maddening about this world. ""Charged with passion, these pages sing to us their erotic melancholy; 'Hope and Despair' is both loving and frightening, a pleasure to read once and again!""

Author : Brandy A. Marks Lmhc
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1796844608

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Impossible Dreams: From Failure and Despair to Hope and Fulfillment, a Healing Journey by Brandy A. Marks Lmhc Pdf

Everyone has a dream that may seem impractical to others but, God wants us to believe not only in the impractical but in the impossible. Whether agnostic, new believer, or backslider seeking to renew their relationship with God this book is applicable to all. "Impossible Dreams" shows how to have your dreams become a reality by following the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in these seven simple steps. (1) Aim for your dream; (2) Believe by faith; (3) Confess your faith; (4) Discipline your body, mind, and emotions; (5) Effectively express yourself; (6) the Forgiveness process; then, (7) Give as you have received. If you are ready to see your dreams a reality, then this book is for you!

Author : Horatius Bonar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015035081358

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Light and Truth by Horatius Bonar Pdf

Author : Kathleen Sullivan
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809141841

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Recurring Dream Symbols by Kathleen Sullivan Pdf

Do you ever wonder why your dreams often contain recurring symbol or themes? Have you been haunted by recurring dreams of being chased, being naked in public or having your teeth fall out? Based on her work with dreamers analyzing their own recurring dream symbols, Kathleen Sullivan explains that working recurrent dreams as a series is the key to unleashing the healing force of these symbols. Fourteen dreamers participate in the study illustrating the process of uncovering the profound meaning within each recurring symbol. These are transformational stories of dreamers engaging their own recurring symbols leading to a new wholeness and deep level of growth and understanding. +

Author : George R. Graham,Edgar Allan Poe,Charles Jacobs Peterson,Rufus Wilmot Griswold,Robert Taylor Conrad,Joseph Ripley Chandler,Bayard Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:44332630

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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion ... by George R. Graham,Edgar Allan Poe,Charles Jacobs Peterson,Rufus Wilmot Griswold,Robert Taylor Conrad,Joseph Ripley Chandler,Bayard Taylor Pdf

Author : William Archer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315312408

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On Dreams by William Archer Pdf

Originally published in 1935, William Archer’s interest in dreams had persisted for over quarter of a century, for ten years of which he kept a careful record of his own dreams. These records alone form a valuable collection of material, of which Archer made good use in the writing of the book on dreams on which he was engaged at the time of his death; large parts of these dream-records are reproduced in this book. He left this book partly finished, partly in draft, and partly in the form of notes. In putting together this material the editor, Theodore Besterman, tries to carry out Archer’s intentions as closely as possible, and believed that he represented the book as he would have wished it to appear. It was unquestionably an important contribution to a difficult subject at the time, the result of many years’ study and reflection.

Author : Frederick Enoch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNMY1W

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Songs of land and sea by Frederick Enoch Pdf

Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593313701

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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan Pdf

From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love's disappointments Anna's aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children's pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she turns her focus to her hospital window, through which she escapes into visions of horror and delight. When Anna's finger vanishes and a few months later her knee disappears, Anna too feels the pull of the window. She begins to see that all around her, others are similarly vanishing, yet no one else notices. All Anna can do is keep her mother alive. But the window keeps opening wider, taking Anna and the reader ever deeper into an eerily beautiful story of grief and possibility, of loss and love and orange-bellied parrots. Hailed on publication in Australia as Richard Flanagan's greatest novel yet, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a rising ember storm illuminating what remains when the inferno beckons: one part elegy, one part dream, one part hope.