Startle And Illuminate

Author : Carol Shields
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780345815965

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Startle and Illuminate by Carol Shields Pdf

In the course of her extraordinary career, which included the novels The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party, The Republic of Love and Unless, as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Shields was unfailingly encouraging of other writers. She read and commented on her friends' manuscripts. She taught writing classes and she spoke and wrote on the craft of writing. Her own discipline rarely faltered. Her daily practice was to write a new page, then edit the page written the day before, then repeat, until, after a year or so, her book was finished. Now in her own words, as clear and straightforward as a glass of water, comes Startle and Illuminate, the best possible guide to the writing process, from conception to publication. This essential work, drawn by her daughter and grandson from her voluminous correspondence with other writers, essays, notes, comments, criticism and lectures, is a last gift from one of our finest novelists meant for both aspiring and established writers. It helps answer some of the most fundamental questions about writing: such as, why we write at all, whether writing can be taught, what keeps a reader turning the pages, and how a writer knows when a work is done. For Shields's devoted readers, Startle and Illuminate reveals her own thoughts on why we read--to be the other, to touch and taste the experience of the other; and why we write--for the joy of the making, to reimagine our world, to discover patterns and uncover forms that echo our realities as well as interrogate them, to imagine alternate worlds. It is a beautiful legacy.

Author : Nora Foster Stovel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031114809

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Relating Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction by Nora Foster Stovel Pdf

This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields’s experimentation with the essay genre in relation to her fiction. Shields’s essays clarify her iconoclastic approach to rules of narrative and illuminate her revisionist policies, elucidating the development of her fiction, both novels and stories, as her writing gradually becomes more explicitly feminist, as well as more daringly postmodernist. The dozen essays by the eminent Canadianists included in this edition throw fresh light on Shields’s writing, inviting us to read it with new eyes by revealing how her essays reflect and refract the brilliance of her fiction. These essays read Shields’s fiction through the lens of her essays, including those contained in the recent Giardini edition, wherein the author explains the creative methodologies involved in her fiction and also offers specific advice to writers of fiction.

Author : Carol A. Fleming
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781609947453

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It's the Way You Say It by Carol A. Fleming Pdf

A revised and updated edition of the detailed, down-to-earth guide to speaking your mind effectively—includes useful exercises. The best, most direct way to convey your intelligence, expertise, professionalism, and personality to other people is through talking to them. But most people have no idea what they sound like. And even if they do, they don’t think they can change it. It’s the Way You Say It is a thorough, nuts-and-bolts guide to becoming aware and taking control of how you communicate with others. Dr. Carol Fleming provides detailed advice and scores of exercises for Understanding how others hear you Dealing with specific speech problems Varying your vocal patterns to make your speech more dynamic Using grammar and vocabulary to increase your clarity and impact Reinforcing your message with nonverbal cues Conquering stage fright An entire section of the book focuses on communication issues in the workplace—interviews, presentations, voice mail, and more. In addition, Dr. Fleming puts a human face on her advice through vivid before-and-after stories of forty men and women who came to her for help. “No other skills will position you ahead of your competition as much as good speaking and presentation skills. No book approaches the depth and breadth of Dr. Carol Fleming’s It’s the Way You Say It.” —Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE, keynote speaker, executive speech coach, and president of Fripp & Associates

Author : Abel Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Methodism
ISBN : OXFORD:600092385

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The history of the religious movement of the eighteenth century, called Methodism by Abel Stevens Pdf

Author : Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham,Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317253860

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Politics of Possibility by Gary A. Olson,Lynn Worsham,Henry A. Giroux Pdf

In the probing interviews in this vibrant new book, eminent scholars struggle with some of the most crucial issues facing contemporary intellectuals. Poststructuralist philosopher Judith Butler discusses the pain of rigorous intellectual work, saying that it is necessarily extremely hard labor, as she examines the intersection of discourse and political action. Award-winning filmmaker, philosopher, and social theorist David Theo Goldberg reviews his life s work, especially on issues of racism. Literary critic and feminist philosopher Avital Ronell sets out to disrupt the standard logic of signification, to force readers into fresh ways of perceiving a subject at hand. Postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha discusses how critical literacy is intimately connected to the question of democratic representation, and he elaborates on how cultural difference can lead to a politics of discrimination. And neo-Marxist cultural critic Slavoj i ek takes readers on an exhilarating journey through a wide range of critical subjects."

Author : Kate Flint
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780192540683

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Flash! by Kate Flint Pdf

Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been linked to the sublimity of lightning. Yet it has also been reviled: it's inseparable from anxieties about intrusion and violence, it creates a visual disturbance, and its effects are often harsh and create exaggerated contrasts. Flash! explores flash's power to reveal shocking social conditions, its impact on the representation of race, its illumination of what would otherwise remain hidden in darkness, and its capacity to put on display the most mundane corners of everyday life. It looks at flash's distinct aesthetics, examines how paparazzi chase celebrities, how flash is intimately linked to crime, how flash has been used to light up - and interrupt - countless family gatherings, how flash can 'stop time' allowing one to photograph rapidly moving objects or freeze in a strobe, and it considers the biggest flash of all, the atomic bomb. Examining the work of professionals and amateurs, news hounds and art photographers, photographers of crime and of wildlife, the volume builds a picture of flash's place in popular culture, and its role in literature and film. Generously illustrated throughout, Flash! brings out the central role of this medium to the history of photography and challenges some commonly held ideas about the nature of photography itself.

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2864 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315521442

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Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Language by Various Authors Pdf

Philosophical themes as diverse as language, value, mind and God are among the topics discussed in this set of 11 books, originally published between 1963 and 1991. Specific volumes cover the following: The relation between persuasion and truth criticism of linguistic philosophy, questions about the nature of thought and ontological questions in general.

Author : Carol Shields,Blanche Howard
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007404681

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A Celibate Season by Carol Shields,Blanche Howard Pdf

In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage.

Author : Anne Giardini
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062106377

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The Sad Truth About Happiness by Anne Giardini Pdf

A beautiful and affecting novel -- bittersweet and comic -- on the elusive nature of happiness Maggie is in her early thirties, gainfully employed, between relationships, and ready for a change. But when she takes a quiz in a magazine that promises to predict the date of a person's death, she's shocked to learn she's going to die before her next birthday unless she can somehow discover contentment in life. What ensues is a quirky and satisfying journey in pursuit of true happiness, a quest that leads to unexpected joys and perceptions.

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Best books
ISBN : 1417782102

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Book Crush by Nancy Pearl Pdf

Presents lists of recommended book titles for children and teenagers divided into three age groups and then further subdivided into more than 118 categories, including animals, folktales, girl power, autobiographies, comic books, and many others.

Author : Charles D. Spielberger
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483258362

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Anxiety and Behavior by Charles D. Spielberger Pdf

Anxiety and Behavior focuses on the analysis of factors and conditions that contribute to anxiety, including stress, emotional disturbance, and psychosomatic disorders. The selection first offers information on theories and research on anxiety and the nature and measurement of anxiety. Topics include objective anxiety (fear) and neurotic anxiety, trends in anxiety research, anxiety and personality dynamics, and laws of anxiety change in pathological and other fields. The text then elaborates on questions and problems on the measurement of anxiety in children, including reservations about anxiety scales, concept of defense, and suggestions on the interpretation of anxiety scales. The publication reviews the psychosomatic aspects of anxiety, basis of psychopathology, and clinical origins of the activation concept. Discussions focus on anxiety and stress, observations of anxiety in men under stress, etiology of psychosomatic disorders, emotional disturbance, and activation. The text also considers conditioning and deconditioning of neurotic anxiety and interaction of cognitive and physiological determinants of emotional state. The selection is a dependable reference for readers interested in the study of anxiety.

Author : Klaus R. Scherer,Paul Ekman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317757634

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Approaches To Emotion by Klaus R. Scherer,Paul Ekman Pdf

This sourcebook is intended as a reader in the fullest sense of that word: a work that offers researchers and students alike the opportunity to examine the many different aspects and widely divergent approaches to the study of emotion. The contributors include samples of biological, ontogenetic, ethological, psychological, sociological, and anthropological approaches.

Author : Silvan Tomkins
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1962-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780826104427

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Affect Imagery Consciousness by Silvan Tomkins Pdf

Tomkins' magnum opus, Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, was published by Springer Publishing Company in four volumes over 30 years. When Tomkins began writing the book in the 1950's, American psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories - neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human behavior. Tomkins challenged the status quo by developing - over the span of nearly 2,000 pages -- a theory of consciousness and motivation that placed emotion at the core of the human experience. Because so few psychologists were studying emotion at that time, Tomkins drew liberally from other academic disciplines to help formulate his ideas and support his arguments: evolutionary biology, ethology, cybernetics, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurophysiology, among others. In the process, Tomkins practically invented the field of "nonverbal behavior" through close observation of emotional expressions in people, including his own infant son. His work was a brilliantly eccentric pastiche of ideas that adhered to no strict disciplinary or ideological boundaries. In time, however, AIC came to prominence through the research of his disciples, notably Paul Ekman and Carroll Izzard, who went on to become major researchers in the psychology of emotion. Today, Tomkins's book is influential not just in psychology but in philosophy, sociology, communication studies, even in "affective computing. Springer Publishing Company is pleased to continue to offer this magisterial work in four volumes.

Author : Silvan S. Tomkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521448328

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Exploring Affect by Silvan S. Tomkins Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the work of Silvan Tomkins - a leading theorist of human emotion and motivation.

Author : Anwen Crawford,Transit Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 1945492619

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No Document by Anwen Crawford,Transit Books Pdf

An elegy for a friendship and artistic partnership cut short by death, exploring the space between activism and art, effaced histories, and abandoned futures.