Imagine reading an account of childhood suffering and its emotional spiritual, intellectual and ultimately physical impacts by someone who has not only conquered its ill affects, but has treated others with similar struggles and now offers her own education and wisdom in this beneficial volume. The Unveiled Mind of a Nurse is a searing honest account of one woman's journey through the darkness of child abuse, including but not limited to sexual abuse, its outgrowth into incest and, ultimately, into severe adult confusion, manifesting itself in psychological disturbances and physical desolation. Warren says, "Despite the fulminating outplay of sexuality during manic depression with schizoid thoughts, I do consider sexuality a physiological and emotional need when maturity ensues." And Warren's strong spirit, with the help of loving friends and family bonds, has carried her through the bleak times and helped her persevere beyond recovery to complete this book. In spreading her hard-earned wisdom, Esther Faye Warren hopes to help others learn to "break the chain" by breaking the patterns implicitly learned in abusive situations and reversing that behavior against the odds.
Imagine reading an account of childhood suffering and its emotional spiritual, intellectual and ultimately physical impacts by someone who has not only conquered its ill affects, but has treated others with similar struggles and now offers her own education and wisdom in this beneficial volume. The Unveiled Mind of a Nurse is a searing honest account of one woman's journey through the darkness of child abuse, including but not limited to sexual abuse, its outgrowth into incest and, ultimately, into severe adult confusion, manifesting itself in psychological disturbances and physical desolation. Warren says, "Despite the fulminating outplay of sexuality during manic depression with schizoid thoughts, I do consider sexuality a physiological and emotional need when maturity ensues." And Warren's strong spirit, with the help of loving friends and family bonds, has carried her through the bleak times and helped her persevere beyond recovery to complete this book. In spreading her hard-earned wisdom, Esther Faye Warren hopes to help others learn to "break the chain" by breaking the patterns implicitly learned in abusive situations and reversing that behavior against the odds.
The first study of one of the most innovative of contemporary novelists, Liz Jensen, and of the "otherworlds" in her fiction. Liz Jensen, a British author of eight novels, is among today's most innovative writers. Her literary thrillers occupy the terrain between realism and science fiction. This first study of Jensen centers on the very diverse "otherworlds" she creates in each of her novels, which can consist of an indeterminate space of ontological instability, a zone in which real and unreal converge to destabilize the realist text, as in Egg Dancing (1995) and TheNinth Life of Louis Drax (2004). In other novels the otherworld relies on defamiliarization: thus in War Crimes for the Home (2002) the experience of war is transformed by being seen from a woman's perspective. In stillother cases, the otherworld spans the novel's entire topos, as in The Paper Eater (2000), the full-blown utopia at the center of Jensen's oeuvre. Jensen's work approaches contemporary social issues such as religious fundamentalism, ecological disaster, and assisted procreation. Simultaneously, it displays a number of characteristics of erudite fiction, including self-reflexivity, inter- and intratextual reference, parody, pastiche, and burlesque. Notwithstanding the "popular" elements of Jensen's work, Helen E. Mundler's study adopts a rigorously academic approach to it, referencing canonical works but also more innovative texts, particularly by contemporary women writers, as points of comparison. Helen E. Mundler is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at UPEC (Université Paris-Est Créteil) with a research affiliation at the Université Paris-X Nanterre-La Défense.
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