Mad Richard

Author : Lesley Krueger
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770909847

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Mad Richard by Lesley Krueger Pdf

A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed shoulders with the great luminaries of the Victorian Age. He grew up along the Medway with Charles Dickens and studied at the Royal Academy Schools under the brilliant and eccentric J.M.W. Turner. Based on Dadd’s tragic true story, Mad Richard follows the young artist as he develops his craft, contemplates the nature of art and fame — as he watches Dickens navigate those tricky waters — and ultimately finds himself imprisoned in Bedlam for murder, committed as criminally insane. In 1853, Charlotte Brontë — about to publish her third novel, suffering from unrequited love, and herself wrestling with questions about art and artists, class, obsession and romance — visits Richard at Bedlam and finds an unexpected kinship in his feverish mind and his haunting work. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Times; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Masterfully slipping through time and memory, Mad Richard maps the artistic temperaments of Charlotte and Richard, weaving their divergent lives together with their shared fears and follies, dreams, and crushing illusions.

Author : Frank Hozeska
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781543431117

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Mad Druggist by Frank Hozeska Pdf

Once upon a time, there was a very kind, loving, generous, and caring man who did good works. Unfortunately, the ungodly hypocrites in authority did not like his radical ways of counseling and made it very difficult for him to hold on to his livelihood. All he wanted in this unprecedented, unheard of, crazy cruel spiritual journey is for someone to give him a break! The tumultuous pharmacy career finally catches up with Louie, and no one is willing to give him another chance or a break. Louie ends up a washed-up pharmacist, and he’s ready to give up his fight, until something crazy happens in the final round.

Author : Lisa Appignanesi
Publisher : Virago
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780748133529

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Mad, Bad And Sad by Lisa Appignanesi Pdf

Mad, bad and sad. From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Freud and Jung and the radical breakthroughs of psychoanalysis to Lacan's construction of a modern movement and the new women-centred therapies. This is the story of how we have understood mental disorders and extreme states of mind in women over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today, when more and more of our inner life and emotions have become a matter for medics and therapists.

Author : Isabel Burton,Lady Isabel Burton
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 8120607287

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The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton by Isabel Burton,Lady Isabel Burton Pdf

Author : Richard Sala
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1560976810

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Mad Night by Richard Sala Pdf

Judy Drood, girl detective, and her companion Kasper Keene try to find out who is behind the bizarre murders that keep taking place at Lone Mountain College, and how the members of the Science Faculty and the clock tower are involved.

Author : Daniel E. Frick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131796869

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Reinventing Richard Nixon by Daniel E. Frick Pdf

"Examining Nixon's autobiographies and political memorabilia, Frick offers far-reaching perceptions not only of the man but of Nixon's version of himself - contrasted with those who would interpret him differently. He cites reinventions of Nixon from the late 1980s, particularly the museum at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, to demonstrate the resilience of certain national mythic narratives in the face of liberal critiques. And he recounts how celebrants at Nixon's state funeral, at which Bob Dole's eulogy depicted a God-fearing American hero, attempted to bury the sources of our divisions over him, rendering in some minds the judgment of "redeemed statesman" to erase his status as "disgraced president."" "With dozens of illustrations - Nixon posing with Elvis (the National Archives' most requested photo), Nixonian cultural artifacts, classic editorial cartoons - no other book collects in one place such varied images of Nixon from so many diverse media. These reinforce Frick's probing analysis to help us understand why we disagree about Nixon - and why it matters how we resolve our disagreements."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Brome
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : English drama
ISBN : OXFORD:300075692

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The Dramatic Works of Richard Brome by Richard Brome Pdf

Author : La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012429

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How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind by La Marr Jurelle Bruce Pdf

“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as “rage,” and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms. With care and verve, he explores the mad in the literature of Amiri Baraka, Gayl Jones, and Ntozake Shange; in the jazz repertoires of Buddy Bolden, Sun Ra, and Charles Mingus; in the comedic performances of Richard Pryor and Dave Chappelle; in the protest music of Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, and Kendrick Lamar, and beyond. These artists activate madness as content, form, aesthetic, strategy, philosophy, and energy in an enduring black radical tradition. Joining this tradition, Bruce mobilizes a set of interpretive practices, affective dispositions, political principles, and existential orientations that he calls “mad methodology.” Ultimately, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind is both a study and an act of critical, ethical, radical madness.

Author : Ranulph Fiennes
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848944923

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Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Ranulph Fiennes Pdf

Ranulph Fiennes tells the story of his unconventional, exceptional family, and reveals the ingredients for the man described by the Guinness Book of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'. Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes's personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne - himself a direct ancestor of the author - to the count who very nearly persuaded William the Conqueror to retreat at Hastings, many members of this unique clan have lived close to the nerve centre of the ruler of their day. They number in their ranks a murderer, a wife poisoner, a poacher, England's greatest female traveller of the 17th century, and an extortionist Lord High Treasurer, teen cousins who eloped, a noble lord hanged for manslaughter, another hanged for adultery with the King's wife, and many who, as admirals or major-generals, won famous battles. The Fiennes' behind Cromwell provided the castle in which the Parliamentarians made their first secret moves, the same building in which twenty-one successive generations of the family have lived for 600 unbroken years . . . And that is just a taster. A whirlwind romp through the annals of time, peopled with the good, the bad and downright mad among the Fiennes clan. - Sunday Telegraph

Author : Sir Richard Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPW8Z

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Richard Steele by Sir Richard Steele Pdf

Author : Bambi Haggins
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813539854

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Laughing Mad by Bambi Haggins Pdf

In Laughing Mad , Bambi Haggins looks at how this transition occurred in a variety of media and shows how this integration has paved the way for black comedians and their audiences to affect each other. Historically, African American performers have been able to use comedy as a pedagogic tool, interjecting astute observations about race relations while the audience is laughing. And yet, Haggins makes the convincing argument that the potential of African American comedy remains fundamentally unfulfilled as the performance of blackness continues to be made culturally digestible for mass consumption.

Author : Thomas Ingoldsby,Richard Harris Dalton Barham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : BL:A0026283908

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The Life and Letters of the Rev. Richard Harris Barham ... by Thomas Ingoldsby,Richard Harris Dalton Barham Pdf

Author : Richard Harris Barham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z218243604

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The Life and Letters of Richard Harris Barham, Author of The Ingolsby Legends; with a Selection from His Miscellaneous Poems; By His Son by Richard Harris Barham Pdf

Author : Sir Denis Forman
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780375751769

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A Night at the Opera by Sir Denis Forman Pdf

“Delightful and anti-reverential”—Sunday Times (London) With an encyclopedic knowledge of opera and a delightful dash of irreverence, Sir Denis Forman throws open the world of opera—its structure, composers, conductors, and artists—in this hugely informative guide. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. For each opera, Sir Denis details the plot and cast of characters, awarding stars to parts that are “worth looking out for,” “really good,” or, occasionally, “stunning.” He goes on to tell the history of each opera and its early reception. Finally, each work is graded from alpha to gamma (although the Ring cycle gets an “X”), and Sir Denis has no qualms about voicing his opinion: the first act of Fidelio is “a bit of a mess,” while the last scene of Don Giovanni “towers above the comic finales of Figaro and Così and whether or not [it] is Mozart's greatest opera, it is certainly his most powerful finale.” The guide also presents brief biographies of the great composers, conductors, and singers. A glossary of musical terms is included, as well as Operatica, or the essential elements of opera, from the proper place and style of the audience's applause (and boos) to the use of subtitles. A Night at the Opera is for connoisseurs and neophytes alike. It will entertain and inform, delight and (perhaps) infuriate, providing a subject for lively debate and ready reference for years to come.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : UCAL:B3007883

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The Highland Monthly by Anonim Pdf