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Book A Fearful Madness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julius Falconer
  • Publisher : Pneuma Springs Publishing
  • Release : 2013-03-21
  • ISBN : 1782282610
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book A Fearful Madness written by Julius Falconer and published by Pneuma Springs Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A police investigation into the violent death of a part-time cathedral verger stalls for lack of incriminating evidence. However, three people have a close interest in clearing the matter up where the police have failed: the victim's sister, and two suspects released without charge and eager to clear their names.

Book The Duchess of Malfi

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Webster
  • Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
  • Release : 2023-07-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book The Duchess of Malfi written by John Webster and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Webster was a later contemporary of Shakespeare, and The Duchess of Malfi, Webster’s best known play, is considered among the best of the period. It appears to have been first performed in 1612–13 at the Blackfriars before moving on to the larger and more famous Globe Theatre, and was later published in 1623. The play is loosely based on a real Duchess of Amalfi, a widow who marries beneath her station. On learning of this, her brothers become enraged and vow their revenge. Soon the intrigue, deceit, and murders begin. Marked by the period’s love of spectacular violence, each character exacts his revenge, and in turn suffers vengeance at the hands of others. Coming after Shakespeare’s equally sanguine Hamlet and Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi brings to a close the era of the great Senecan tragedies of blood and revenge. As the Jacobean period progressed, the spectacle became more violent and dark, reflecting the public’s growing dissatisfaction with the corruption of King James’ court.

Book Culture  Madness and Wellbeing

Download or read book Culture Madness and Wellbeing written by Jason Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique study of the historical, theoretical, and cultural interpretations of ‘madness’ including interviews with those who have experiences of ‘madness’. It takes a transdisciplinary approach, employing historical, psychological, and sociological perspectives through an intersectional lens. This work explains how the prioritization of thinking over feeling in Western thought means the transrational imagination has frequently been negated in tackling mental health with detrimental results. This book, therefore, examines creative media, especially film, as a transrational form of human expression for healing and wellbeing, along with television, theatre, social media, music, and computer games. ‘Madness’ with regards to gender, sexuality, adolescence, and class in media and film is interrogated, as well as ‘madness’ and race through a focus on colonialism, post-colonialism, and psychiatry. It analyses group psychosis, including celebrity culture, and the ‘madness’ of leaders and gurus. This book challenges the lasting influence of the Age of Reason by furthering our understanding of the value of transrationality and the diverse ways of being human.

Book The Madness of Fear

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Shorter
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 0190881194
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Madness of Fear written by Edward Shorter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing wrong with basic science research, but before studying the role of brain circuits or cerebral chemistry, shouldn't we be able to specify how the various diseases present clinically? Catatonia is a human behavioral syndrome that for almost a century was buried in the poorly designated psychiatric concept of schizophrenia. Its symptoms are well-know, and some of them are serious. Catatonic patients may die as their temperatures accelerate; they become dehydrated because they refuse to drink; they risk inanition because they refuse to eat or move. Autistic children with catatonia may hit themselves repeatedly in the head. We don't really know what catatonia is, in the sense that we know what pneumonia is. But we can identify it, and it is eminently treatable. Clinicians can make these patients better on a reliable basis. There are few other disease entities in psychiatry of which this is true. So why has there been so little psychiatric interest in catatonia? Why is it simply not on the radar of most clinicians? Catatonia actually occurs in a number of other medical illnesses as well, but it is certainly not on the radar of most internists or emergency physicians. In The Madness of Fear, Drs. Shorter and Fink seek to understand why this "vast field of ignorance" exists. In the history of catatonia, they see a remarkable story about how medicine flounders, and then seems to find its way. And it may help doctors, and the public, to recognize catatonia as one of the core illnesses in psychiatry.

Book Madness  Cannabis and Colonialism

Download or read book Madness Cannabis and Colonialism written by J. Mills and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-07-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating, entertaining and often gruelling book by James Mills, examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in nineteenth-century India. The author asserts that there was a growth in asylums following the Indian Mutiny, fuelled by the fear of itinerant and dangerous individuals, which existed primarily in the British imagination. Once established though, these asylums, which were staffed by Indians and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas in which the designs of the British were contested and confronted. Mills argues that power is everywhere and is behind every action; colonial power is therefore just another way to assert control over the less powerful. This social history draws on official archives and documents based in Scotland, England and India. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in history, sociology, or the general interest reader.

Book Addresses at Patriotic and Civic Occasions

Download or read book Addresses at Patriotic and Civic Occasions written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creativity  Madness and Civilisation

Download or read book Creativity Madness and Civilisation written by Richard Pine and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is ‘creativity’? And what is ‘madness’? How far can we interpret an artist’s work through our knowledge of his or her mental state, and how far can we infer a mental state from a work of art? When does a work of art cease to be a personal statement by the artist and become a matter of public concern? The contributions to this book attempt to answer some of these questions. They come from a wide range of disciplines and experiences – a practising psychiatrist, a practising artist suffering from reactive depression, and critics working in literature, film, music and the visual arts. The essays include discussions of the ‘myth of creativity’, the music of Robert Schumann, the borders of sanity in the writing of Lawrence Durrell, the ‘insane truth’ of Virginia Woolf, the meeting of doctor and patient in the poetry of Anne Sexton, mood disorders in the fiction of David Foster Wallace, love and madness in the poetry of Hafiz of Shiraz, and the paintings of Adolf Wölfli. Central to this discussion of creativity, madness and civilisation is the difficulty of establishing an appropriate and effective vocabulary and mindset between critics and clinical psychiatrists, which would enable them to work together in understanding mental disturbance in creative artists.

Book Delphi Complete Works of D H  Lawrence  Illustrated

Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of D H Lawrence Illustrated written by D.H. Lawrence and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 10937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and artist, D. H. Lawrence had an immense influence on twentieth century literature, in spite of his short and often persecuted life. His novels represent an extended reflection on the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation, establishing his name as one of the great imaginative novelists of his generation. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Lawrence’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 12) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lawrence’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 12 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * All 68 short stories, with many rare stories appearing in digital print for the first time * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry and the short stories * Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read * All the plays, with separate contents tables * All the travel writing books * 7 poetry collections, including rare books available in no other digital collection * Includes many rare non-fiction essays and collections * Also includes ‘A STUDY OF THOMAS HARDY’ – explore Lawrence’s critique of the famous author * The rare school textbook Lawrence wrote when struggling financially * Includes Part I and Part II of PHOENIX: THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE – spends hours exploring this collection of literary papers that chart Lawrence’s genius * Features a bonus biography by Lawrence’s wife’s – first time in digital print’ explore the great writer’s literary life! * Lawrence’s translations of Italian novels and short stories * Also features Lawrence’s paintings * UPDATED with two drafts of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’: The First Lady Chatterley; John Thomas and Lady Jane * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres CONTENTS: The Novels The White Peacock (1911) The Trespasser (1912) Sons and Lovers (1913) The Rainbow (1915) Women in Love (1920) The Lost Girl (1920) Mr Noon (1921) Aaron’s Rod (1922) Kangaroo (1923) The Boy in the Bush (1924) The Plumed Serpent (1926) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) The First Lady Chatterley John Thomas and Lady Jane The Novellas The Ladybird (1923) The Fox (1923) The Captain’s Doll (1923) St. Mawr (1925) The Virgin and the Gipsy (1930) The Escaped Cock (1930) The Short Stories The Complete Short Stories List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Plays The Daughter-in-Law (1913) The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1914) Touch and Go (1920) David (1926) The Fight for Barbara (1933) A Collier’s Friday Night (1934) The Married Man (1940) The Merry-Go-Round (1941) The Poetry Collections D .H. Lawrence’s Poetry: A Brief Introduction Love Poems and Others (1913) Amores (1916) Look! We Have Come Through! (1917) New Poems (1918) Bay: A Book of Poems (1919) Birds Beasts and Flowers (1923) Imagist Poetry (1923) Pansies (1929) Nettles (1930) Last Poems (1932) More Pansies (1932) The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Travel Writing Twilight in Italy (1916) Sea and Sardinia (1921) Mornings in Mexico (1927) Sketches of Etruscan Places (1932) The Non-Fiction A Study of Thomas Hardy (1914) Movements in European History (1921) Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious (1921) Fantasia of the Unconscious (1922) Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays (1925) A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1929) Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation (1931) Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence (1936) Phoenix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other Prose Works (1968) The Translations The Gentleman from San Francisco (1915) by Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin Mastro-Don Gesualdo (1923) by Giovanni Verga Little Novels of Sicily (1925) by Giovanni Verga Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories (1928) by Giovanni Verga The Paintings The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence (1929) The Biography Not I, But the Wind… (1935) by Frieda Lawrence

Book The Poems

    Book Details:
  • Author : D.H. Lawrence
  • Publisher : Rosetta Books
  • Release : 2019-02-20
  • ISBN : 0795351623
  • Pages : 1090 pages

Download or read book The Poems written by D.H. Lawrence and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of modern English poetry from the celebrated author of Lady Chatterly’s Lover. This definitive collection of D. H. Lawrence’s poems, both previously published and some not, presents here with the poems in their intended forms, reversing censorship and correcting long-missed errors for the first time. The texts are accompanied by a comprehensive study of the composition, publication and reception of Lawrence’s most iconic poetry.

Book Seven Days Whipping

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Biggs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Seven Days Whipping written by John Biggs and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lyra Graeca

Download or read book Lyra Graeca written by John Maxwell Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Delphi Collected Fragments of Alcaeus  Illustrated

Download or read book Delphi Collected Fragments of Alcaeus Illustrated written by Alcaeus of Mytilene and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary of Sappho, Alcaeus of Mytilene was a sixth century BC lyric poet from the island of Lesbos, who is credited for inventing the Alcaic stanza, which would become a favorite model for Horace. The works of Sappho and Alcaeus represent for many the high point of brilliance for the development of early Greek lyrical poetry. Some ancient critics held Alcaeus even higher than Pindar in their estimation of his poetical abilities. His works consist of hymns in honour of gods and heroes, love poetry, drinking songs and political poems, reflecting the turbulent political life of his native Mytilene. Delphi’s Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Greek texts. This eBook presents Alcaeus’ collected fragments, with illustrations, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Alcaeus’ life and works * Features the collected fragments of Alcaeus, in both English translation and the original Greek * Concise introduction to the poet * Includes J. M. Edmonds’ 1922 translation, previously appearing in the Loeb Classical Library * Excellent formatting of the texts * Easily locate the fragments you want to read with individual contents tables * Features a bonus biography — discover Alcaeus’ ancient world * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to explore our range of Ancient Classics titles or buy the entire series as a Super Set CONTENTS: The Translation The Fragments The Greek Text Contents of the Greek Text The Biography Life of Alcaeus (1922) by J. M. Edmonds Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Book Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk

Download or read book Elizabethan Drama and Its Mad Folk written by E. Allison Peers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book The casquet of literature  a selection in poetry and prose  ed  with notes by C  Gibbon

Download or read book The casquet of literature a selection in poetry and prose ed with notes by C Gibbon written by Casket and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Library of Choice Literature

Download or read book The Library of Choice Literature written by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Casquet of Literature

Download or read book The Casquet of Literature written by Charles Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: