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Book The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P

Download or read book The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P written by Brian O'Doherty and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P

Download or read book The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P written by Brian O'Doherty and published by Hutchinson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the glittering court of Maria Theresa of Austria, replete with scheming courtiers and musicians, an unconventional doctor is presented with a challenging case - a young woman blind since the age of three. This sensual novel explores the psychology of faith and scepticism.

Book The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P

Download or read book The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P written by Brian O'Doherty and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll   Mademoiselle Odile

Download or read book The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll Mademoiselle Odile written by James Reese and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prequel to "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," set in 1870's Paris during the Prussian siege, an orphaned 16-year-old girl whose knowledge of witchcraft includes transformation spells meets a young medical doctor from London.

Book The Strange Case of  The Angels of Mons

Download or read book The Strange Case of The Angels of Mons written by Richard J. Bleiler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914. On September 29, 1914, the Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen fictionalized this encounter in a newspaper story, claiming that the English were saved by the appearance of angelic bowmen sent by St. George. But his fiction became accepted as fact. The believers--notables G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle and C. S. Lewis, along with almost forgotten figures like Harold Begbie, Phyllis Campbell and T. W. H. Crosland--wrote pamphlets, testimonies and poems, performed music and created motion pictures attesting to the existence of the guardian angels. This history of the Angels of Mons controversy for the first time collects and annotates Machen's work and the responses it inspired, most of which have not been available since their publication a century ago. Also reprinted for the first time are several of Machen's responses to the believers, including "The Angels of Mons: Absolutely My Last Word on the Subject" and "The Return of the Angels: This Time They Are at Ypres."

Book Writing Urban Space

    Book Details:
  • Author : Liam Murphy Bell
  • Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1780992548
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Writing Urban Space written by Liam Murphy Bell and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From William Blake through to Iain Sinclair, literature has sought to engage with and transform urban space. Architects now seek the input of poets, and storytelling is employed in urban regeneration. Writing Urban Space investigates this relationship between imaginative writing and the built environment.

Book Sublime Desire

Download or read book Sublime Desire written by Amy J. Elias and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-winner of the Perkins Prize from the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Has twentieth-century political violence destroyed faith in historical knowledge? What happens to historical fiction when history is seen as either a form of Western imperialism or a form of postmodern simulation? In Sublime Desire, Amy Elias examines our changing relationship to history and how fiction since 1960 reflects that change. She contends that postmodernism is a post-traumatic imagination that is pulled between two desires: the political desire to acknowledge the physical violence of twentieth-century history, and the yearning for an escape from that history into a ravishing realm of historical certainty. Torn between these desires, both historical fiction and historiography after 1960 redefine history as the "sublime," a territory beyond lived experience that is both unknowable and seductive. In the face of a failure of Enlightenment ideals about knowledge and the West's own history of violence, post-World War II history becomes a desire for the "secular sacred" sublime—for awe, certainty, and belief. Sublime Desire is an eloquent melding of theory and practice. Mixing the canonical with the unexpected, Elias analyzes developments in the historical romance genre from Walter Scott's novels to novels written today. She correlates developments in the historical romance to similar changes in historiography and philosophy. Sublime Desire draws engagingly on more than thirty relevant texts, from Tolstoy's War and Peace to Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry, Charles Johnson's Dreamer, and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. But the book also examines theories of postmodern space and time and defines the difference between postmodern and postcolonial historical perspectives. The final chapter draws from trauma theory in Holocaust studies to define how fiction can pose an ethical alternative to aestheticized history while remaining open to pluralism and democratic values. In its range and sophistication, Sublime Desire is a valuable addition to postmodernist studies as well as to studies of the historical romance novel.

Book Idioms of Distress

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  • Author : Lilian R. Furst
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2012-02-01
  • ISBN : 0791487598
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Idioms of Distress written by Lilian R. Furst and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary study examines the enigmatic category of psychosomatic disorders as articulated in medical writings and represented in literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Six key works are analyzed: Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin, Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, Brian O'Doherty's The Strange Case of Mademoiselle P., and Pat Barker's Regeneration. Each is a case study in detection as the hidden sources of bodily ills are uncovered in intra- or interpersonal conflicts such as guilt, family tensions, and marital discord. The book fosters a better understanding of these puzzling disorders by revealing how they function simultaneously as masks and as manifestations of inner suffering.

Book Problem Based Psychiatry

Download or read book Problem Based Psychiatry written by Ben Green and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised text presents student doctors, mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, mental health advocates and mental health therapists with a problem-based approach to psychiatry. It contains numerous case studies, allowing a problem-based approach to core information and reflecting the processes that underlie clinical decision making. This second edition is upgraded, expanded and updated, including details of the best modern web based resources. Its problem-based approach to teaching is at the forefront of the delivery of modern medical school curricula, and includes additional new case scenarios and current opinion on mental disorders and their treatment using both drug therapy and psychotherapy. It fully reflects the latest practice and recent changes in mental health provision.

Book The Historical Novel  Transnationalism  and the Postmodern Era

Download or read book The Historical Novel Transnationalism and the Postmodern Era written by Susan Brantly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past, demonstrating how histories can communicate across national borders, often by invoking or deconstructing the very notion of nationhood. It traces how concerns of the postmodern era such as critiques of historiography, colonialism, identity, and the Enlightenment, have impacted the genre of the historical novel, and shows this impact has not been uniform throughout Western culture. Historical novels from England, America, Germany, and France are compared and contrasted with historical novels from Sweden, testing a variety of theoretical perspectives in the process.

Book London Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book London Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Artifacts

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 4 pages

Download or read book Artifacts written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New York Times Index

Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women   Music

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  • Author : Karin Pendle
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2001-04-22
  • ISBN : 0253115035
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Women Music written by Karin Pendle and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-22 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the “milestone” work of history that focuses on female musicians through the ages (College Music Symposium). This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.

Book The Deposition of Father McGreevy

Download or read book The Deposition of Father McGreevy written by Brian O'Doherty and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It should have won all the prizes" DORIS LESSING "Enthralling, chilling and memorable" Sunday Telegraph "So original that the text is illuminating" The Times "Remarkable and haunting" Guardian In a London pub in the 1950s, editor William Maginn is intrigued by a reference to the reputedly shameful demise of a remote mountain village in Kerry, Ireland, where he was born. Maginn returns to Kerry and uncovers an astonishing tale: both the account of the destruction of a place and a way of life which once preserved Ireland s ancient traditions, and the tragedy of an increasingly isolated village where the women mysteriously die leaving the priest, Father McGreevy, to cope. McGreevy struggles to preserve what remains of his parish, and against the rough mountain elements, the grief and superstitions of his people, and the growing distrust in the town below. Rich in the details of Irish lore and life, and a gripping exploration of both the locus of misfortune and the nature of evil, its narrative evokes both a time and a place with the accuracy of a keen unsentimental eye, and renders its characters with heartfelt depth. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Book Braille Book Review

Download or read book Braille Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medical Humanities Review

Download or read book Medical Humanities Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: