Download or read book The Perils of Melancholy written by Christine Soltis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vent your inner frustrations while reading verses of emotions that sometimes fall upon us like a shadow in the night. Excess darkness, fear and indecision can break into the spirit and try to overwhelm with its greed. Thankfully, we can capture these feelings, these moments in the moment and then discard and defeat them thereafter. Melancholy is a dangerous gloom, a good friend of depression. It is quiet, sulking and at times, undiagnosed. We must understand the perils, the dangers of living with the transitory feeling of melancholy. And we must always defeat it. When going into this collection of dark verses ranging from 2007-2009, understand them, but do not intercept. The whole reason to read of these feelings is to be informed so that you will know when it afflicts you, to let it go- to just let it pass by. Read, enjoy, grasp...then let it go. Tread lightly on the peril. Written and Edited By Christine Soltis Copyright © 2009 First Edition

Download or read book Thirty written by Christine Soltis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's face it; the age of thirty is a big worry for men and women alike. It is a time where all of us question our paths, pasts and destinations. In this comedic and tragic tale, our main character, author Violet Errid, yearns to have the normalcy, the freedom of her pre-fame life. She wants to re-awaken and unleash the youthfulness within her. Violet sets off on a trip to Arizona...completely alone. As she waltzes into a more adventurous world, she strives to keep her celebrity identity a secret. Thirty offers female readers an adventurous escape, as we follow Violet through humorous, angry, elated and painful stages. While in Arizona, a mixture of joy, independence and anxiety wind a web, inevitably leading her to find love. But in the blink of an eye, her abduction by a human trafficking ring shows her the temporary torment of what it is like to be inside a fiction story. Copyright (c) 2011

Download or read book The Demon s Fog written by Christine Soltis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing cases. Ashen remains. Fire and fog. Something unnatural has come forth, terrorizing unsuspecting victims. This creature erupts from the sky, extinguishing lives from our existence. All acts seem random, the deaths unexplainable, the bodies indecipherable. These are the elements that convinced bored college graduate Mina Clyne to investigate the supernatural. But with eyewitness accounts as her only evidence, she becomes desperate to prove the demon's existence despite the constant supervision of skeptical and overprotective friends. Only action will give her the answers, the reason these bodies were taken from the earth and charred completely to ash. But how far will she go to prove a supernatural truth? And will she survive when in the midst of all fires lies...the demon's fog. Written By Christine Soltis Copyright (c) July 2010 First Edition

Download or read book Transference written by Christine Soltis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this book, you will find 11 fiction tales of absolute transference. You co-exist with others and with transference. In this short story book, this concept has been used while crossing the genres of science fiction and horror. In the story Alien Venom, meet Cole, who enjoys killing aliens in the name of revenge for physical ailments they have inflicted upon him. While reading Bright, watch as Wendy learns a lesson about transference while trying to expose a scientific scandal. See what happens around the world when everyone stares at the color waves in the sky in Daylight Constellation - The Beauty. Extraterrestrials, biologically evolved creatures, humans, vampires, dystopian depictions and more can be found in the short stories within this book. I transfer this to you, for your entertainment. Written by Christine Soltis Copyright October 2016 A SolsticeNightSky Production Edited by Jean H. Purcell

Download or read book The Age of Melancholy written by Dan G. Blazer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. "Major Depression" is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of depression been on such an increase in the last 50 years, if our basic biology hasn't changed as rapidly? To find answers, Dr. Blazer looks at the social forces, cultural and environmental upheavals, and other external, group factors that have undergone significant change. In so doing, the author revives the tenets of social psychiatry, the process of looking at social trends, environmental factors, and correlations among groups in efforts to understand psychiatric disorders.

Download or read book In A Land Of Destruction written by Christine Soltis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweep into the continuing magic, mischief and mysteriousness of the land of Hatred Blooms. In the beginning, you entered in a land of hatred, meeting the residents of Hatred Blooms when it was just simple and gray. You've watched this world and its residents experience life in a land of change right before your very eyes. And now it is time to find yourself...in a land of destruction. Who will become the new leader of Hatred Blooms? What happened to Sam the snake? Who is this new character with a love for blue? Is the harpy Vera still alive? And will this destructive world succeed in separating Tommy and Veronica forever? Dive deeper into the Hatred Blooms series to discover the final fates of your favorite characters. Will the confused identities of man and goblin come to destroy them all? Copyright (c) 2009 Christine Soltis

Download or read book Reclusive 2038 written by Christine Soltis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fiction work, imagine a future world as it reaches depletion of natural resources. The majority of the world lives in gated 'safe communities.' Advanced technology occupies the time of those who once played outside. Welcome to the future. Welcome to Reclusive 2038. Daylight hours are restricted, forcing people to become reclusive. Within this tale, regulatory measures have been taken to sustain natural capital from depletion. A single corporation houses, feeds and works the people, supplying them their daily needs. When main character Linda Taggart's depressed brother ends his life, he leaves behind strange diagrams with no explanation. Through a chance encounter, Linda leaves her gated life to live in the chaotic world with the wealthy ones outside of the gates, known as Elitists. Here, she cracks the code of the strange diagrams just as she realizes how restricted she once was.

Download or read book Capitola s Peril written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Gendering of Melancholia written by Juliana Schiesari and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature. The pantheon of renowned melancholics—from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin—includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in patriarchal culture than to the lack of significance accorded to women's grief. Through penetrating readings of texts from Aristotle to Kristeva, she illuminates the complex history of the symbolics of loss in Renaissance literature. Schiesari first considers the development of the concept of melancholia in the writings of Freud and then surveys recent responses by such theorists as Luce Irigaray, KaJa Silverman, and Julia Kristeva. Schiesari provides fresh interpretations of works by Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, and Ficino and she considers women's poetry of the Italian Renaissance, key works by Tasso and Shakespeare, and the writings of Walter Benjamin and Jacques Lacan. According to Schiesari, male melancholia was celebrated during the Renaissance as a sign of inspired genius, at the same time as public rituals of mourning led by women were suppressed. The Gendering of Melancholia will be stimulating reading for scholars and students in the fields of feminist criticism, psychoanalytic and literary theory, and Renaissance studies, and for anyone interested in Western cultural history.

Download or read book The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England written by Douglas Trevor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the methods by which these same writers come to analyse their own moods. He also examines early modern medical texts, dramaturgical representations of learned depressives such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the opposition to materialistic accounts of the passions voiced by Neoplatonists such as Edmund Spenser.

Download or read book The Darkest Alleyway written by Christine Soltis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darkest Alleyway is a compilation of beginning, experimental verses by Christine Soltis. The very first one, Mother Nature in Distress, is credited as the jump-starter of her writing career. Many of the verses were written within the flawed confines of youth and are depictions of the rebel in us all. Sorrow, greed, indecision and unexpected humor are frequently encountered. Below are excerpts, which exemplify the diversity within."A desert lies beneath her eyes, A lone cactus withers and dies..."-Excerpt from Mother Nature in Distress"A woman's wrath. A power beyond her word. Take from her what she loves, take what she cares for, take her name and you've committed yourself to the torture to come. You cannot take every time..."-Excerpt From Wrath"A cow mooed around, happily. He talked to his friends, filled with glee. He stopped by a fence to chew some grass. As he looked up, a bird pooped on his ass..."-Excerpt from The CowCopyright © 2010

Download or read book Drowned Town written by Jayne Moore Waldrop and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long." Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home and illuminates the joys and sorrows of a group of people bound together by western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes and the lakes that lie on either side of it. The linked stories are rooted in a landscape forever altered by the mid-twentieth-century impoundment of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and the seizing of property under the power of eminent domain to create a national recreation area on the narrow strip of land between the lakes. The massive federal land and water projects completed in quick succession were designed to serve the public interest by providing hydroelectric power, flood control, and economic progress for the region—at great sacrifice for those who gave up their homes, livelihoods, towns, and history. The narrative follows two women whose lives are shaped by their friendship and connection to the place, and their stories go back and forth in time to show how the creation of the lakes both healed and hurt the people connected to them. In the process, the stories emphasize the importance of sisterhood and family, both blood and created, and how we cannot separate ourselves from our places in the world.

Download or read book A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature written by Miguel Tamen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume is a collection of papers on Portuguese literature, giving a historical and more updated review. Included are twelve essays presented in chronological order, providing students with a series of assessments and developments.

Download or read book Mystical Bedlam written by Michael MacDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-08-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystical Bedlam explores the social history of insanity of early seventeenth-century England by means of a detailed analysis of the records of Richard Napier, a clergyman and astrological physician, who treated over 2000 mentally disturbed patients between 1597 and 1634. Napier's clients were drawn from every social rank and his therapeutic techniques included all the types of psychological healing practised at the time. His vivid descriptions of his clients' afflictions and complaints illuminate the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people. This book goes beyond simply analysing mental disorder in a seventeenth-century astrological and medical practice. It reveals contemporary attitudes towards family life, describes the appeal of witchcraft and demonology to ordinary villagers, and explains the social and intellectual basis for the eclectic blend of scientific, magical, and religious therapies practised before the English Revolution. Not only is it a contribution to the history of medicine but also a survey of some of the darkest regions of the mental world of the English people of the seventeenth century.

Download or read book The Science of Sadness written by David Huron and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia in human life and their broader lessons for understanding emotions in general. The Science of Sadness proposes an original scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia, advocating a unique ethological approach to these familiar, woeful emotions. One of the leading scholars in the psychology of music and music cognition, David Huron draws on hundreds of studies from physiology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and the arts to resolve long-standing problems that have stymied modern emotion research. A careful examination of sadness-related behaviors reveals their biological and social functions, which Huron uses to formulate a new theory about how emotions in general are displayed and interpreted. We’ve all shed tears of joy, tears of grief, tears of pain. While different emotions often share the same weepy display, Huron identifies the single function that unites them. He suggests how weeping emerged over the course of human evolution, explores the contrasting cultural manifestations of sadness, and chronicles humanity’s changing interpretations of sadness over time. Huron also explains the various ways cultures recruit and reshape involuntary emotional displays for different social purposes, and he offers a compelling narrative of what makes tragic arts so appealing. Though sadness is typically regarded as the very antithesis of happiness, The Science of Sadness draws attention to the important roles that grief, melancholy, and nostalgia play in human well-being.

Download or read book Robert Burton on the Melancholic Plague written by Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an innovative perspective on the melancholic character of English divine, writer and academic Robert Burton (1577–1640) and how it shaped his confrontations with political and academic powers. Delving on his historical context, personal struggles and earlier literary pieces, this enquiry provides a new reading of The Anatomy of Melancholy, revealing its deeper purposes and how these prefigure the tensions at the heart of modern discourses—therapeutic, political, and economic. Along with Burton’s observations on melancholy, the book highlights the emergence of "melancholic observation", a new kind of reflexive and critical stance on the pressing issues of his time This is well expressed in Burton's presentation of 'melancholizing' as a creative activity, which uses the existential stance as the grounding for utopian imagination and projects performative ways to expose the limitations of political and academic powers. Beyond its analysis of Burton's melancholic character, the book provides a wealth of knowledge that enhances the study and teaching of various subjects. It illuminates the transformation of Renaissance medicine and its embeddedness within religious, academic, and literary discourses and practices, offers insights into historical figures associated with the concept of melancholy, explores shifts in philosophical readership during the era, and uncovers the precursors of psychotherapy. By connecting these diverse subjects, it provides an interdisciplinary approach that enriches our understanding of the cultural and intellectual landscape of the time. Robert Burton on the Melancholic Plague invites readers on an intellectual journey through the profound complexities of Robert Burton's masterpiece, The Anatomy of Melancholy. By intertwining existential, socio-political, geographic, economic, and artistic dimensions of Burton’s work, it opens new avenues of exploration, gaining valuable insights into the motivation and depth of his work.

Download or read book The Irish ecclesiastical record written by Irish ecclesiastical record and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: