Download or read book Frightful Stages written by Robert B. Marchesani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Face stage fright and self-doubt with new courage! The experience of awe has rarely been considered by psychologists, but this extraordinary book makes up for that neglect. Frightful Stages explores all the shades of that strange emotion from reverence to terror. At its heart, awe is the condition of human suffering in situations that require you to act in all the senses of that deceptively simple word, whether on stage or off, whether in the presence of many or alone. Frightful Stages provides a multifaceted view of the semiotics of awe. It deals with its manifestations in film, on stage, in poetry, in ordinary lives as well as in the more extraordinary ones, including Bessie Smith, Carl Van Vechten, Barbra Streisand, Federico Fellini, Thomas Merton, and John Ashbery. This unprecedented book delineates the experience of awe in moments of stage fright, performance anxiety, and everyday interpersonal relations. Frightful Stages takes place on and off stage, before the curtain and behind, in the audience and on the screen. It explores the mysterious experience of awe in a multitude of contexts, including: Thomas Merton's psychoanalytic showdown with Gregory Zilboorg the chronic tensions between Apollonian reason and Dionysian instinct in myth, psychoanalysis, creation, and performance the ill-fated encounter between the greatest of all blues singers and a brilliant, self-loathing literary critic the moment of awe in experiential psychotherapy as seen by both the analyst and client the differences and similarities between stage fright and social phobia the intricate interrelationships between pernicious envy, emotional awkwardness, and fear a personal diary chronicling one man's crisis of panic, anguish, and self-doubt the complexities of feeling, offering, and accepting reverence in the psychotherapeutic relationship Frightful Stages gives clinicians and lay readers a variety of approaches from the analytic to the unanalytic, from the psychodynamic to the humanistic. It will appeal to a diverse audience, including therapists, clients, social theorists, cultural anthropologists, performers, and writers. Additionally, this book is intended to help artists deal with creative blocks, therapists cope with their own terrors, and all helping professionals understand bizarre phenomena.
Download or read book This Was Andersonville written by Pvt. John McElroy and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TRUE STORY OF ANDERSONVILLE MILITARY PRISON, AS TOLD IN THE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN MCELROY, SOMETIME PRIVATE, CO. L, 16TH ILLINOIS CAVALRY Aged only 16 years old in 1863, John McElroy enlisted with the Union Army as a private in Company L of the 16th Illinois Cavalry regiment, and was captured the following year near Jonesville, Virginia, by Confederate cavalrymen. McElroy was first sent to Richmond, then to Andersonville in February 1864. In October 1864 he was moved to Savannah and within about six weeks was sent to the new prison in Millen, Georgia (Camp Lawton); thence to several other camps before the war ended and his release from captivity. In 1879, John McElroy wrote Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, a non-fiction work based on his experiences during his fifteen-month incarceration. It quickly became a bestseller. This is the edited 1957 version by Roy Meredith, richly illustrated throughout by Arthur C. Butts IV.
Download or read book Andersonville Civil War Classics written by John McElroy and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams. For men who endured the horrors of the Civil War, Andersonville Prison represented an even more terrifying level of hell. The prisoners starved while disease ran rampant. John McElroy was captured in battle and transferred to Andersonville. This is his eye-opening, bestselling account of his imprisonment in a place where one of every four men died.
Download or read book History of the Twenty fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade Known as the Detroit and Wayne County Regiment written by Orson Blair Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The People That Time Forgot written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the events of The Land That Time Forgot, Tom Billings wrangles a crew and leads a search effort to find the missing Bowen Tyler. He’s unknowingly pulled into the island’s many conflicts. Bowen Tyler is still missing after being marooned on the Antarctic island of Caprona. Tom Billings plans a group expedition to find Bowen and his remaining crew. When his plane is attacked by a gang of creatures, he crashes into an unspecified area. He encounters several inhabitants, both friend and foe, while seeking guidance on his journey. With the remaining team en route, Tom must fend for himself in this fantastical world of mystical beasts. The People That Time Forgot is part of the Caspak trilogy, which centers the occupants of Caprona island. It’s a prehistoric fantasy with elements of romance and adventure. The story is driven by the unwavering commitment of one man and his need to uncover the truth. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The People That Time Forgot is both modern and readable.
Download or read book Vital Signs written by Gregg Levoy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover—or discover for the first time—the things that make you passionate in life Vital Signs is about what inspires passion and what defeats it. How we lose it and how we get it back. And ultimately it’s about the endless yet endlessly fruitful tug-of-war between freedom and domestication, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves. Each chapter in Vital Signs will contain a core sample, an intimate biography of one of the strategies we employ to gain or regain our passion. The book also affirms the importance of courageous inquiry into dispassion—where we’re numb, depressed, stuck, bored—so the reader can recognize and change these tendencies in themselves.
Download or read book The Lost World MEGAPACK written by Lin Carter and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 3298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost World MEGAPACKTM explores strange lands and peoples lost from the rest of civilization -- strange continents, hidden valleys, microscopic worlds, and underground kingdoms are just the tip of the iceberg! With classic stories from well-known authors like Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Arthur Conan Doyle to more recent works by Lin Carter, Don Wilcox, Eando Binder, and many others, this is the lost world collection you've been waiting for. Even if you're a connoisseur of lost world fiction, you'll find stories here that you've never encountered before. Or if you're new to the genre, you will find this collection a treasure-trove of fantastic fiction from cover to cover! Included are: THE LOST WORLD, by Arthur Conan Doyle PEOPLE OF THE PYRAMIDS, by William P. McGivern KING SOLOMON'S MINES, by H. Rider Haggard LAND OF THE SHADOW DRAGONS, by Eando Binder JOURNEY TO THE UNDERGROUND WORLD, by Lin Carter THE MOON POOL, by A. Merritt THE METAL MONSTER, by A. Merritt A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, by Jules Verne THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, by Rudyard Kipling THE DEVIL-TREE OF EL DORADO, by Frank Aubrey TERROR ISLAND, by Alex Shell Briscoe AT THE EARTH'S CORE, by Edgar Rice Burroughs PELLUCIDAR, by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, by Edgar Rice Burroughs THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT, by Edgar Rice Burroughs OUT OF TIME'S ABYSS, by Edgar Rice Burroughs UNDER THE ANDES, by Rex Stout THE MAN WHO MEASURED THE WIND, by Harold Lamb DWELLERS OF THE DEEP, by Don Wilcox VRIL, THE POWER OF THE COMING RACE, by Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton SYMZONIA: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY, by Adam Seaborn A STRANGE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A COPPER CYLINDER, by James De Mille If you enjoy this book, search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 150+ entries in the MEGAPACKTM ebook series, covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classics, adventure stories, and much, much more! The MEGAPACKTM ebook series name is a trademark of Wildside Press, LLC.
Download or read book The Land That Time Forgot written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2020-12-12T17:56:23Z with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land That Time Forgot opens with the discovery near Greenland of a floating thermos flask containing a manuscript by castaway Tyler Bowen, Jr. The document recounts a series of adventures that starts with a sea battle against a German U-boat and ends on a mysterious island populated by hostile prehistoric animals and people. The second part of the book, “The People That Time Forgot,” continues the story with the tale of Tom Billings, who has been sent on a mission to rescue Bowen after his manuscript was discovered. He flies solo over the mountainous cliffs that encircle the island and is attacked by a monstrous flying reptile, forcing him to crash-land. Billings then attempts to make his way on foot back to the rest of his party while contending with dangerous inhabitants from different stages of human development. The final installment of the story, “Out of Time’s Abyss,” reveals what happened to Bradley, a crew member who was sent on a scouting expedition earlier in the story and was never heard from again. This trilogy of short novels was originally published serially in 1918 in Blue Book Magazine. In 1924 they were published in a single volume by A. C. McClurg. The Burroughs fan community seems to fall into two camps about whether the story comprises three separate novellas, or whether it’s a single novel divided into three parts. This Standard Ebooks edition follows the 1924 edition in combining the three into a single novel. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Photo Attractions written by Ajay Sinha and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white patron of the African-American movement called the Harlem Renaissance. Photo-Attractions describes the interpersonal desires and expectations of the two men that took shape when the dancer took pose in exotic costumes in front of Van Vechten’s Leica camera. The spectacular images provide a rare and compelling record of an underrepresented history of transcultural exchanges during the interwar years of early-20th century, made briefly visible through photography. Art historian Ajay Sinha uses these hitherto unpublished photographs and archival research to raise provocative and important questions about photographic technology, colonial histories, race, sexuality and transcultural desires. Challenging the assumption that Gopal was merely objectified by Van Vechten’s Orientalist gaze, he explores the ways in which the Indian dancer co-authored the photos. In Sinha’s reading, Van Vechten’s New York studio becomes a promiscuous contact zone between world cultures, where a “photo-erotic” triangle is formed between the American photographer, Indian dancer, and German camera. A groundbreaking study of global modernity, Photo-Attractions brings scholarship on American photography, literature, race and sexual economies into conversation with work on South Asian visual culture, dance, and gender. In these remarkable historical documents, it locates the pleasure taken in cultural difference that still resonates today.
Download or read book The Fall of Cardinal Giovanni Foscolo written by Demetrius Duke and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardinal G. Foscolo misplaces the Apocryphal Judas Parchments but informs the Pope they have been stolen and that a ransom is demanded. The New York Mafia fronts the ransom money. Murder ensues, and the treacherous cardinal flees to New York.
Download or read book A Treasury of Edgar Rice Burroughs written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 1913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here in this oversized omnibus edition are nine novels of adventure by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs was the undisputed master of pulp fiction. His characters Tarzan and John Carter are still household names today. Now you can thrill to his other fine novels which include At the Earth's Core, Pellucidar, The Outlaw of Torn, The Efficiency Expert, The Monster Men, The Oakdale Affair, The Land That Time Forgot, The Lost Continent, and The People that Time Forgot. Buckle up and enjoy the ride!
Download or read book Edgar Rice Burroughs Caspak Series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by VolumesOfValue. This book was released on with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition features • three complete books • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT OUT OF TIME'S ABYSS
Download or read book Reflections in Personal Construct Theory written by Richard Butler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally-renowned practitioners discuss the impact of reflexivity on their work, giving those new to personal construct psychology valuable insights and guidance on managing the therapeutic relationship. Reflexivity is a key methodological issue in psychological theory and practice, and is an area of growing interest International contributors include prominent constructivist psychologists such as Richard Bell and David Winter Will help constructivist therapists to gain a better understanding of the nature of personal constructs from the perspective of both client and therapist
Download or read book The Art of Time in Memoir written by Sven Birkerts and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations of key but sometimes neglected aspects of creative writing by some of contemporary literature's finest practioners. In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. By examining memoirs such as Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory; Virginia Woolf's unfinished A Sketch of the Past; and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club, Birkerts describes the memoirist's essential art of assembling patterns of meaning, stirring to life our own sense of past and present.
Download or read book Ancestral House written by Charles Rowell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of 70 short stories by writers of African descent. The authors are from Europe and the Americas (about half of them from the United States), and they include Alice Walker, Hal Bennett and John Edgar Wideman.
Download or read book You Made Me Love You written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar Wideman’s short stories over his fifty-year career, representing the wide range of his intellectual and artistic pursuits. When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Malamud Award in 2019, he joined a list of esteemed writers—from Eudora Welty to George Saunders—all of whom are acknowledged masters of the short story. Wideman’s commitment to short fiction has been lifelong, and here he gathers a representative selection from throughout his career, stories that “have a wary, brooding spirit, a lonely intelligence…[and] air the problem of consciousness, including the fragile contingency of our existence” (The New York Times). Wideman’s stories are grounded in the streets and the people of Homewood, the Pittsburgh neighborhood of his childhood, but they range far beyond there, to the small western towns of Wyoming and historic Philadelphia, the contemporary world and the ancient past. He explores the interior lives of his characters, and the external pressures that shape them. These stories are as intellectually intricate as they are rich with the language and character. “Wideman has been compared to William Faulkner and James Baldwin…[these] prove that he is every bit as masterful a cartographer of the American spirit as his forebears" (Esquire). Comprised of thirty-five stories drawn from past collections (American Histories, Briefs, God’s Gym, All Stories Are True, Fever, and Damballah), and an introductory essay by the National Book Critics Circle board member and scholar Walton Muyumba, this volume of Wideman’s selected stories celebrates the lifelong significance of this major American writer’s essential contribution to a form—illuminating the ways that he has made it his own. “If there were any doubts Wideman belongs to the American canon, this puts them to bed” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Download or read book Fever written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns subtle and intense, disturbing and elusive, the stories in this collection are ultimately connected by themes of memory and loss, reality and fabrication, and by a richless of language that rests lightly on its carefully foundation.
