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The Theater of Trauma

American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930

By: Michael Cotsell

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The Theater of Trauma

American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930

By: Michael Cotsell

The Theater of Trauma is a groundbreaking rereading of the relations between psychology and drama in the age of Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and their many brilliant contemporaries. American modernist Theater of Trauma drew its vision from the psychological investigation of trauma and its consequences - among them hysteria and dissociation - made by French and American psychiatrists such as the great Pierre Janet, Alfred Binet, William James, Morton Prince, and W.E.B. Du Bois; the European and American «dissociationist culture» that developed around their work; and the resulting trauma of World War I. American dramatists' deep resistance to Freud's suppression of trauma challenges the equation of Freud and modernism that has become commonplace in modernist criticism.

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Peter Lang

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0820474665

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9780820474663

The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)

Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 4

By: Michael Cotsell

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The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)

Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 4

By: Michael Cotsell

Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) Dickens’ last completed novel, has been critically praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, and yet is has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works. This volume is the first book-length study of the novel. It explores every aspect of Dickens’ sustained imaginative involvement with his age. In particular its original research into hitherto neglected sources reveals not only Dickens’ reactions to the important developments during the 1860s in education, finance and the administration of poverty, but also his interest in phenomena as diverse as waste collection and the Shakespeare tercentenary. The Companion to Our Mutual Friend demonstrates the varied resources of artistry that inform the novel, and it provides the reader with a fundamental source of information about one of Dickens’ most complex works.

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444

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Routledge

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113502765X

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9781135027650

Reading William Faulkner

'The Sound and the Fury'

By: Michael Cotsell

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Reading William Faulkner

'The Sound and the Fury'

By: Michael Cotsell

This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury and-since it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulkner-for established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provides some general context about Faulkner's life and work in the American South and 'Yoknapatawpha County', and introduces the form and style of Faulkner's novel. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the contexts of Southern history and Faulkner's family history. Chapter 3 is a discussion of the influences on Faulkner of Modernist literature and Modernist psychology and philosophy. Chapter 4 gives a close commentary on each of the novel's four narratives

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176

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eBook Partnership

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1847602061

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9781847602060

The Collected (Almost) Works of Michael Timko

By: Michael Timko

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The Collected (Almost) Works of Michael Timko

By: Michael Timko

The Collected (Almost) Works of Michael Timko.Volume II consists of a number of essays written over the past 50 or so years. These essays, some scholarly, some not so scholarly, reflect his interests in various subjects, some scholarly, some not so. Their publication in this volume is chiefly for the benefit of immediate family and dear friends. The author hopes that those who dip into the book will immerse themselves completely; in other words get wet. In the words of that famous philosopher: Enjoy.

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251

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469100940

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9781469100944

Gabriel García Márquez

Solitude and Solidarity

By: Michael Bell

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Gabriel García Márquez

Solitude and Solidarity

By: Michael Bell

Much good criticism of Mrquez came in the wake of One Hundred Years of Solitude and the perception of his fiction has been dominated by that novel. It seemed the implicit goal to which the earlier fiction has been striving. By concentrating on the later novels, including The General in his Labyrinth, this study brings out the internal dialogue between the novels so that One Hundred Years of Solitude then stands out, like Don Quixote in Cervantes' oeuvre, as untypical yet more deeply representative. Behind the popular impact of its 'magical realism' lies Mrquez' abiding meditation on the nature of fictional and historical truth.

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173

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349230154

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9781349230150

Sleep and the Novel

Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present

By: Michael Greaney

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Sleep and the Novel

Fictions of Somnolence from Jane Austen to the Present

By: Michael Greaney

Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering the narrativization of sleep in Austen, the politicization of sleep in Dickens, the queering of sleep in Goncharov, the aestheticization of sleep in Proust, and the medicalization of sleep in contemporary fiction, it examines the ways in which novelists envision the figure of the sleeper, the meanings they discover in human sleep, and the values they attach to it. It argues that literary fiction harbours, on its margins, a “sleeping partner”, one that we can nickname the Schlafroman or “sleep-novel”, whose quiet absorption in the wordlessness and passivity of human slumber subtly complicates the imperatives of self-awareness and purposive action that traditionally govern the novel.

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230

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Springer

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3319752537

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9783319752532

Trade and Romance

By: Michael Murrin

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Trade and Romance

By: Michael Murrin

In Trade and Romance, Michael Murrin examines the complex relations between the expansion of trade in Asia and the production of heroic romance in Europe from the second half of the thirteenth century through the late seventeenth century. He shows how these tales of romance, ostensibly meant for the aristocracy, were important to the growing mercantile class as a way to gauge their own experiences in traveling to and trading in these exotic locales. Murrin also looks at the role that growing knowledge of geography played in the writing of the creative literature of the period, tracking how accurate, or inaccurate, these writers were in depicting far-flung destinations, from Iran and the Caspian Sea all the way to the Pacific. With reference to an impressive range of major works in several languages—including the works of Marco Polo, Geoffrey Chaucer, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Luís de Camões, Fernão Mendes Pinto, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and more—Murrin tracks numerous accounts by traders and merchants through the literature, first on the Silk Road, beginning in the mid-thirteenth century; then on the water route to India, Japan, and China via the Cape of Good Hope; and, finally, the overland route through Siberia to Beijing. All of these routes, originally used to exchange commodities, quickly became paths to knowledge as well, enabling information to pass, if sometimes vaguely and intermittently, between Europe and the Far East. These new tales of distant shores fired the imagination of Europe and made their way, with surprising accuracy, as Murrin shows, into the poetry of the period.

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338

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University of Chicago Press

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022607160X

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9780226071602

Charles Dickens

By: Michael Slater

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Charles Dickens

By: Michael Slater

A magnificent new biography of the man who gave us David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens' career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing--letters, journalism, shorter fiction, plays, verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationships among them. Slater's account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity, and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens' boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination with disorder, his organizational genius, his deep concern for the poor and outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales, and his hatred of tyranny. Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the language.

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718

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Yale University Press

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0300170939

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9780300170931

Clinical Neurodynamics

A New System of Musculoskeletal Treatment

By: Michael O. Shacklock

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Clinical Neurodynamics

A New System of Musculoskeletal Treatment

By: Michael O. Shacklock

Applies and modifies Maitland techniques to neural mobilization, refining and improving practical skills for clinical physiotherapists and physically-based occupational therapists. The text outlines the concept of neurodynamics and the basic mechanisms in movement of the nervous system and describes what can go wrong. Causal mechanisms are linked to diagnosis and treatment of pain and musculoskeletal problems in a systematic way. Various treatment techniques for each diagnostic category are presented and applied to specific clinical problems such as neck pain, headache, tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, low back pain to name a few. These are common problems in which therapists often miss a neural component

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Elsevier España

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8480862211

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9788480862219

The Theater of Trauma

American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930

By: Michael Cotsell

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American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930

By: Michael Cotsell

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Peter Lang

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0820474665

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Michael Shannon

Painting and the Poetry of Daily Life

By: Graeme Sturgeon,Michael Shannon

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Michael Shannon

Painting and the Poetry of Daily Life

By: Graeme Sturgeon,Michael Shannon

This "book on the art of Michael Shannon traces his development from his early years as a student with George Bell, to his most recent studies of the landscape of Northern Victoria. Comprehensively illustrated, it reveals his sustained interest in the urban environment and his ability to find both poetry and quiet dignity in the ordinary aspects of the suburban world". -- inside front cover.

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Fine Art Publishing

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0947131329

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9780947131326

Book's by Michael Cotsell

The Theater of Trauma

The Theater of Trauma

The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)

The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)

Reading William Faulkner

Reading William Faulkner

The Collected (Almost) Works of Michael Timko

The Collected (Almost) Works of Michael Timko

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Sleep and the Novel

Sleep and the Novel

Trade and Romance

Trade and Romance

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Clinical Neurodynamics

Clinical Neurodynamics

The Theater of Trauma

The Theater of Trauma

Michael Shannon

Michael Shannon

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