Download or read book Grief Odyssey written by Douglas O'Neill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have book for anyone who has experienced the loss of a beloved wife. Grief Odyssey is the story of two men, each of whom lost his wife to cancer. Both had young children and both went to the depths of sorrow before they began to find a sure emotional footing for their life. This is a must-have book for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one or who has someone in your life who has also dealt with loss. Dr. Douglas E. ONeill and Dan H. Gilbertson take you on a journey that details: - The shock they experienced as a result of learning their wives had a terminal illness - The way they reacted to their wives illness - The life-changing decisions they had to make before and after the wives treatments - And the way fathers and their children adjusted to their tragic losses Their journey is expressed in four phases: 1. Receiving the diagnosis of cancer 2. Watching a wife suffer through treatment 3. The unbelievable loss and sorrow when she died 4. Recovering slowly from that grief to find, once again, emotional health

Download or read book Grief Odyssey written by Dans Gilbertson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have book for anyone who has experienced the loss of a beloved wife. Grief Odyssey is the story of two men, each of whom lost his wife to cancer. Both had young children and both went to the depths of sorrow before they began to find a sure emotional footing for their life. This is a must-have book for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one or who has someone in your life who has also dealt with loss. Dr. Douglas E. O'Neill and Dan H. Gilbertson take you on a journey that details: - The shock they experienced as a result of learning their wives had a terminal illness - The way they reacted to their wives' illness - The life-changing decisions they had to make before and after the wives' treatments - And the way fathers and their children adjusted to their tragic losses Their journey is expressed in four phases: 1. Receiving the diagnosis of cancer 2. Watching a wife suffer through treatment 3. The unbelievable loss and sorrow when she died 4. Recovering slowly from that grief to find, once again, emotional health

Download or read book Grief Odyssey written by Douglas O'Neill and published by Winepress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MUST-HAVE BOOK FOR ANYONE WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THE LOSS OF A BELOVED WIFE. Grief Odyssey is the story of two men, each of whom lost his wife to cancer. Both had young children and both went to the depths of sorrow before they began to find a sure emotional footing for their life. This is a must-have book for those who have experienced the loss of a loved one or who has someone in your life who has also dealt with loss. Dr. Douglas E. O'Neill and Dan H. Gilbertson take you on a journey that details: - The shock they experienced as a result of learning their wives had a terminal illness - The way they reacted to their wives' illness - The life-changing decisions they had to make before and after the wives' treatments - And the way fathers and their children adjusted to their tragic losses Their journey is expressed in four phases: 1. Receiving the diagnosis of cancer 2. Watching a wife suffer through treatment 3. The unbelievable loss and sorrow when she died 4. Recovering slowly from that grief to find, once again, emotional health These two men share what they did to get through the difficult times as well as how they've moved on with their lives. Because they have been there and lived it, they are experts.

Download or read book Grief Odyssey written by Douglas O'Neill and Dan Gilbertson and published by Winepress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief Odyssey is the story of two men, each of whom lost his wife to cancer. Both had young children and both went to the depths of sorrow before they began to find a sure emotional footing for their life.

Download or read book Grief Odyssey written by Daniel Gilbertson and published by TrustedBooks. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MUST-HAVE BOOK FOR ANY MAN WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THE LOSS OF A BELOVED WIFE Grief Odyssey is the story of two men, each of whom lost his wife to cancer. Though each man had young children depending on their father, each plummeted to the depths of grief and despair before being able to begin the slow ascent to emotional recovery. This is a must-have book for all who have experienced the loss of a loved one or know of someone who is dealing with such a loss. Dr. Douglas E. O'Neill and Dan H. Gilbertson take the reader on a journey that details: - The shock experienced when they learn their wives have a terminal illness - Their reaction to their wives' illnesses - The life-changing decisions they have to make before and after their wives' treatments - The way these fathers and their children adjust to their tragic losses Their journey is expressed in four phases: 1. Receiving the diagnosis of cancer 2. Watching a wife suffer through treatment 3. Experiencing profound grief when she dies 4. Recovering slowly from that grief to find, once again, emotional health These two men share what they did to get through the difficult times as well as how they've moved on with their lives. Because they have been there and lived it, they are experts.

Download or read book Odyssey of Ashes written by Cheryl Krauter and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odyssey of Ashes: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Letting Go begins with the sudden death of Cheryl Krauter’s spouse. Five months later, in a stroke of irony and magic, her husband wins a long-desired guided fly fishing trip in a raffle—and Cheryl decides to go in his place, fulfilling a promise to scatter his ashes by a trout stream. Part I of this memoir is an account of the first year after Cheryl’s husband’s death, where she becomes an explorer in the infinite stream of grief and loss, a time traveler between the darkness of sorrow and the light of daily life. Part II concludes with stories of the poignant and humorous adventures she had during the ensuing year. Tying it all together and woven throughout is Cheryl’s account of the creation of an altar assembled during the three-day ritual of Los Días de los Muertos. Poetic and mythological, Odyssey of Ashes is a raw story of loss and the deep transformation that traveling through darkness and returning to light can bring.

Download or read book The Odyssey written by Homer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new translation of Homer's great epic poem that encapsulates the power of cunning over strength, the pitfalls of temptation and the importance of home. Anthony Verity's rendering transmits the directness, power, and dignity of Homer's poetry in an elegant and accurate translation that respects the original line numbers. William Allan, an authority in classical Greek tragedy and epic, offers a full introduction that guides the reader in understanding the composition of the poem, the major themes of the narrative, and situates the poem in its original cultural context. The line-by-line format of the translation is invaluable for those wishing to coordinate it with the Greek text or references in secondary literature. Extensive notes offer book-by-book summaries and elucidate difficult words and passages. The bibliography offers a succinct guide to further scholarship in English; a full index of names enables the reader to trace particular characters through the text; map showing the known Greek world traversed by Odysseus between Troy and Ithaca.--Provided by the publisher.

Download or read book Homer s Odyssey written by Lillian Eileen Doherty and published by Oxford Readings in Classical S. This book was released on 2009 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles sixteen authoritative articles on Homer's Odyssey that have appeared over the last thirty years. A wide variety of interpretative strategies are represented, including, in addition to traditional close readings, the approaches of comparative anthropology, narratology, feminism, and audience-oriented criticism. Papers have been selected for their clarity and accessibility, and each is informed by close attention to philological and textual detail. A full glossary and list of abbreviations have been included, and a specially written introduction puts the selections in a wider context by giving an overview of major strands in the interpretation of Homer in the second half of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Reanimating grief written by William McEvoy and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing to express grief’s subjectivity and uniqueness. It covers classic texts from Greek tragedy and Shakespeare to works by Anton Chekhov, Samuel Beckett, Enda Walsh, Sally Rooney and Maggie O’Farrell. The book argues that the return of the dead in theatre and fiction is an act of memorial and an expression of love that illustrates the relationship between art, enchantment and impossibility.

Download or read book A Journey Through Grief written by Alla Renee Bozarth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With losses large and small, the coronavirus pandemic will include all kinds of grief. This resource offers specific help for the hardest parts. For those of us working through the heartbreak of grief, author Bozarth offers wise and comforting advice.

Download or read book Harnessing Grief written by Maria J. Kefalas and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of a mother who took unimaginable tragedy and used her grief as a force to do good by transforming the lives of others. When Maria Kefalas’s daughter Calliope was diagnosed with a degenerative, uncurable genetic disease, the last thing Maria expected to discover in herself was a superpower. She and her husband, Pat, were head over heels in love with their youngest daughter, whose spirit, dancing eyes, and appetite for life captured the best of each of them. When they learned that Cal had MLD (metachromatic leukodystrophy), their world was shattered. But as she spent time listening to and learning from Cal, Maria developed the superpower of grief. It made her a fearless warrior for her daughter. And it gave her voice a bell-like clarity—poignant and funny all at once. This superpower of grief also revealed a miracle—not the conventional sort that fuels the prayers of friends and strangers but a realization that, in order to save themselves, Maria and Pat would need to find a way to save others. And so, with their two older children, they set out to raise money so that they, in their son PJ’s words, could “find a cure for Cal’s disease.” They had no way of knowing that a research team in Italy was closing in on an effective gene therapy for MLD. Though the therapy came too late to help Cal, this news would be the start of an unexpected journey that would introduce Maria and her family to world-famous scientists, brilliant doctors, biotech CEOs, a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback, and a wise nun, and it would also involve selling 50 thousand cupcakes. They would travel to the FDA, the NIH, and the halls of Congress in search of a cure that would never save their child. And their lives would become inextricably intertwined with the families of 13 children whose lives would be transformed by the biggest medical breakthrough in a generation. A memoir about heartbreak that is also about joy, Harnessing Grief is both unsparing and generous. Steeped in love, it is a story about possibility.

Download or read book Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey written by Sheila Murnaghan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the significance of the Odyssey's plot, in particular the many scenes of recognition that make up the hero's homecoming and dramatize the cardinal values of Homeric society, an aristocratic culture organized around recognition in the broader senses of honor, privilege, status, and fame. Odysseus' identity is seen to be rooted in his family relations, geographical origins, control of property, participation in the social institutions of hospitality and marriage, past actions, and ongoing reputation. At the same time, Odysseus' dependence on the acknowledgement of others ensures attention to multiple viewpoints, which makes the Odyssey more than a simple celebration of one man's preeminence and accounts in part for the poem's vigorous afterlife. The theme of disguise, which relies on plausible lies, highlights the nature of belief and the power of falsehood and creates the mixture of realism and fantasy that gives the Odyssey its distinctive texture. The book contains a pioneering analysis of the role of Penelope and the questions of female agency and human limitation raised by the critical debate about when exactly she recognizes that Odysseus has come home.

Download or read book The Odyssey of Homer written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of the story of Odysseus's journey home after the Trojan War.

Download or read book Odyssey written by Homer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their composition almost 3,000 years ago the Homeric epics have lost none of their power to grip audiences and fire the imagination: with their stories of life and death, love and loss, war and peace they continue to speak to us at the deepest level about who we are across the span of generations. That being said, the world of Homer is in many ways distant from that in which we live today, with fundamental differences not only in language, social order, and religion, but in basic assumptions about the world and human nature. This volume offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to ancient Greek culture through the lens of Book One of the Odyssey, covering all of these aspects and more in a comprehensive Introduction designed to orient students in their studies of Greek literature and history. The full Greek text is included alongside a facing English translation which aims to reproduce as far as feasible the word order and sound play of the Greek original and is supplemented by a Glossary of Technical Terms and a full vocabulary keyed to the specific ways that words are used in Odyssey I. At the heart of the volume is a full-length line-by-line commentary, the first in English since the 1980s and updated to bring the latest scholarship to bear on the text: focusing on philological and linguistic issues, its close engagement with the original Greek yields insights that will be of use to scholars and advanced students as well as to those coming to the text for the first time.

Download or read book Singers Heroes and Gods in the Odyssey written by Charles Segal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the special charms of the Odyssey, according to Charles Segal, is the way it transports readers to fascinating places. Yet despite the appeal of its narrative, the Odyssey is fully understood only when its style, design, and mythical patterns are taken into account as well. Bringing a new richness to interpretation of this epic, Segal looks closely at key forms of social and personal organization which Odysseus encounters in his voyages. Segal also considers such topics as the relationship between bard and audience, the implications of the Odyssey's self-consciousness about its own poetics, and Homer's treatment of the nature of poetry.

Download or read book Travel and Home in Homer s Odyssey and Contemporary Literature written by Carol Dougherty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier to Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Cormac McCarthy's The Road to produce new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer's iconic story of travel and home. While some novels share with the Odyssey a celebration of the creative process of improvisation to rethink the relationship between home and travel, others draw upon nostalgia - our complicated longing for home - to unsettle the inevitability of return. Rather than offering an explicit retelling of Homer's poem, each of these novels prompts us to revisit the relationship between travel and home that Odysseus and Penelope embody to ask new questions of that well-read text. Does travel reinforce or destabilize our notion of home? Are mobility and domesticity irrevocably gendered, or can we imagine a world in which Penelope travels and Odysseus stays home? Just as Odysseus continually reinvents his own identity with each new encounter, both abroad and at home, so too we, as readers, participate in an improvisatory interpretive experiment of our own. This volume sets out a new model for reading ancient and contemporary texts together - one that challenges the conventional chronological assumptions inherent in many works of classical reception. No longer a stable text to which we as readers return time and again to find it the same, the Odyssey, together with the novels with which it engages, changes and adapts with each new literary encounter.

Download or read book The Ethics of Revenge and the Meanings of the Odyssey written by Alexander C. Loney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey. The principal revenge plot of the Odyssey --Odysseus' surprise return to Ithaca after twenty away and his vengeance on Penelope's suitors -- is the act for which he is most celebrated. This story forms the backbone of the Odyssey. But is Odysseus' triumph over the suitors as univocally celebratory as is often assumed? Does the poem contain and even suggest other, darker interpretations of Odysseus' greatest achievement? This book offers a careful analysis of several other revenge plots in the Odyssey -- those of Orestes, Poseidon, Zeus, and the suitors' relatives. It shows how these revenge stories color one another with allusions (explicit and implicit) that connect them and invite audiences to interpret them in light of one another. These stories -- especially Odysseus' revenge upon the suitors -- inevitably turn out to have multiple meanings. One plot of revenge slips into another as the offender in one story becomes a victim to be avenged in the next. As a result, Odysseus turns out to be a much more ambivalent hero than has been commonly accepted. And in the Odyssey's portrayal, revenge is an unstable foundation for a community. Revenge also ends up being a tenuous narrative structure for an epic poem, as a natural end to cycles of vengeance proves elusive. This book offers a radical new reading of the seemingly happy ending of the poem.