The Ghost Of One S Self

Author : Paul Meehan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476630250

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The Ghost of One's Self by Paul Meehan Pdf

For millennia people have held folk beliefs about the existence of the doppelganger--"double walker" in German--a look-alike second self that is often the antithesis of one's identity and is usually considered an omen of misfortune or death. The theme of the double has inspired works by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Poe, de Maupassant, Dostoevsky and others, and has been the basis for many classic mystery, horror and science fiction movies. This critical survey examines the double in more than 100 films by such acclaimed directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Mario Bava, Roger Corman, David Cronenberg, George Romero, Fritz Lang, James Cameron, Robert Siodmak, Don Siegel, John Frankenheimer, Terry Gilliam, Brian De Palma and Roman Polanski.

Author : Cheryl Strayed
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307949332

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Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu Original series • The internationally acclaimed author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor and insight—and absolute honesty—this "wise and compassionate" (New York Times Book Review) book is a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; you lose a family member; you can’t pay the bills—and it can be great: you’ve had the hottest sex of your life; you get that plum job; you muster the courage to write your novel. Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice.

Author : Timb Hoswell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365603310

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Phenomenology and The Ghost in The Machine: An Investigation into Wilfrid Sellars, Jean--Paul Sartre, Gilbert Ryle and The Concept of Mind by Timb Hoswell Pdf

Author : Charles Bernheimer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300026331

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Flaubert and Kafka by Charles Bernheimer Pdf

Although their styles appear remarkably different, Flaubert and Kafka share a common identification with the writing process itself. "I am a human pen," wrote Flaubert; "I am nothing but literature," declared Kafka. This stimulating book is the first to explore the link between these writers. Introducing his conception of psychopoetics, Charles Bernheimer brings new clarity to many controversial issues in psychoanalysis, rhetoric, and critical theory. In chapters on Flaubert and Kafka he probes the desires and fears motivating each writer's search for a fully satisfying literary style. His interpretation of the strategies the authors adopt to harness the negativity of writing reveals the creative function of such psychological phenomena as narcissism, fetishism, and sadomasochism. The major works, Bernheimer argues, dramatize the conflict between the structures of Eros and Thanatos, metonymy and metaphor, through which they are constituted. From this illuminating perspective he traces the genesis of each writer's mature style, analyzes two early works, La Tentation de saint Antoine and "The Judgment," and examines two late masterpieces, Bouvard et Pécuchet and The Castle, applying to the latter Walter Benjamin's description of the allegorical mode. This highly original work of theoretical criticism will interest not only readers of Flaubert and Kafka but all students of literary theory and the creative process.

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524748838

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The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier Pdf

Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead: these are just a few of the characters in this extraordinary compendium of one hundred ghost stories. Kevin Brockmeier’s fiction has always explored the space between the fantastical and the everyday with profundity and poignancy. As in his previous books, The Ghost Variations discovers new ways of looking at who we are and what matters to us, exploring how mysterious, sad, strange, and comical it is to be alive—or, as it happens, not to be.

Author : Tony M. Vinci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000760569

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Ghost, Android, Animal by Tony M. Vinci Pdf

Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of severe pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought. Investigating how literary representations of ghosts, androids, and animals engage traumatic experience, this book revisits canonical texts by William Faulkner and Toni Morrison and aligns them with experimental and popular texts by Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, and Clive Barker. In establishing this textual field, the book reveals how depictions of non-human agents invite readers to cross subjective and cultural thresholds and interact with the "impossible" pain of others. Ultimately, this study asks us to consider new practices for reading trauma literature that enlarges our conceptions of the human and the real.

Author : John J. Whelan
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Clinical psychologists
ISBN : 9781460285305

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Ghost in the Ranks by John J. Whelan Pdf

Operational Stress Injuries and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are among the possible consequences facing members of the Canadian military. Unlike the potential physical consequences of dangerous deployments, psychological injuries are not always apparent. Military members are taught a mental skillset to help them manage their internal emotional worlds allowing them to do extraordinary things. Unfortunately, while ingrained military training prepares our men and women for action as capable soldiers, this same training may also require them to trade aspects of their humanness-sowing the seeds for lingering mental distress. As a result, those most affected are left in a limbo, disconnected from their military roles and yet unable to relate to their former civilian lives. They become ghosts of their former selves, haunting the ranks until, more often than not, they find themselves on the outside looking in, with unacknowledged scars, anger, and regret. We ask a great deal of our men and women in uniform; if a shift in culture can help members of our military with mental distress, we owe it to them to make that shift possible....

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle,M. R. James,Saki,Sabine Baring-Gould,Thomas Hardy,Robert Louis Stevenson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Charles Dickens,Fergus Hume,John Kendrick Bangs,Jerome K. Jerome,Leonard Kip,Catherine Crowe,Lucie E. Jackson,William Douglas O'Connor,Frank R. Stockton,James Bowker,Grant Allen,Louisa M. Alcott,Florence Marryat,Katherine Rickford,J. M. Barrie,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,George MacDonald,Bithia Mary Croker,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Catherine L. Pirkis,E. F. Benson,Algernon Blackwood
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1015 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026880516

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Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers by Arthur Conan Doyle,M. R. James,Saki,Sabine Baring-Gould,Thomas Hardy,Robert Louis Stevenson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Charles Dickens,Fergus Hume,John Kendrick Bangs,Jerome K. Jerome,Leonard Kip,Catherine Crowe,Lucie E. Jackson,William Douglas O'Connor,Frank R. Stockton,James Bowker,Grant Allen,Louisa M. Alcott,Florence Marryat,Katherine Rickford,J. M. Barrie,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,George MacDonald,Bithia Mary Croker,Mary Elizabeth Braddon,Catherine L. Pirkis,E. F. Benson,Algernon Blackwood Pdf

Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wolves of Cernogratz (Saki) Mustapha (Sabine Baring-Gould) The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James) The Christmas Banquet (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Ghost's Touch (Fergus Hume) Glámr (Sabine Baring-Gould) The Ghosts at Grantley (Leonard Kip) A Terrible Christmas Eve (Lucie E. Jackson) Ghosts and Family Legends (Catherine Crowe) The Ghost: A Christmas Story (William Douglas O'Connor) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa (John Kendrick Bangs) The Abbot's Ghost; or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (Louisa M. Alcott) Old Applejoy's Ghost (Frank R. Stockton) Wolverden Tower (Grant Allen) The Christmas-Eve Vigil (James Bowker) Told After Supper (Jerome K. Jerome) The Box with the Iron Clamps (Florence Marryat) Joseph: A Story (Katherine Rickford) The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton (Charles Dickens) The Ghost of Christmas Eve (J. M. Barrie) The Dead Sexton (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu) Uncle Cornelius His Story (George MacDonald) The Grave by the Handpost (Thomas Hardy) Number Ninety (Bithia Mary Croker) At Chrighton Abbey (Mary Elizabeth Braddon) The Haunted Man (Charles Dickens) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) The Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens) The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step (Catherine L. Pirkis) Between the Lights (E. F. Benson) Transition (Algernon Blackwood) The Kit-Bag (Algernon Blackwood)

Author : Zeynep Direk,Leonard Lawlor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0415235812

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Jacques Derrida by Zeynep Direk,Leonard Lawlor Pdf

These three volumes assemble the most important essays written on Jacques Derrida's philosophy since he became established in 1967. These volumes make well-known essays easily available and also present many essays never translated in English.

Author : William Holtz
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826210155

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The Ghost in the Little House by William Holtz Pdf

A biography of Rose Wilder Lane, ghostwriter of her mother's "Little House" books and a journalist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000132746276

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Judy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerald Stanley Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Democracy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044079422127

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The Ghost in the White House by Gerald Stanley Lee Pdf

Author : Charles Annandale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:$B623727

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The Imperial Dictionary and Encyclopedia of Knowledge Unabridged by Charles Annandale Pdf

Author : Cara Fabre
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442624450

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Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms by Cara Fabre Pdf

In the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms, Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its many forms contributes to common assumptions about the causes, and personal and social implications, of addiction. Recent fictional depictions of addiction significantly refute the idea that addiction is caused by poor individual choices or solely by disease through the connections the authors draw between substance use and poverty, colonialism, and gender-based violence. With particular interest in the pervasive myth of the “Drunken Indian", Fabre asserts that these novels reimagine addiction as social suffering rather than individual pathology or moral failure. Fabre builds on the growing body of humanities research that brings literature into active engagement with other fields of study including biomedical and cognitive behavioural models of addiction, medical and health policies of harm reduction, and the practices of Alcoholics Anonymous. The book further engages with critical pedagogical strategies to teach critical awareness of stereotypes of addiction and to encourage the potential of literary analysis as a form of social activism.

Author : Henry James Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023476106

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The Testimony of the Two Anointed Ones that Stand by the Lord of the Whole Earth; Or, Brother Prince's Testimony Concerning Jesus Christ as the Son of Man by Henry James Prince Pdf