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Assorted Essays

Author : Shemeela Sasikumar

Publisher : Clever Fox Publishing

Page : 108 pages

File Size : 28,57 MB

Release :

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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This book is just a collection of essays I had written on different topics connected with my personal life. Besides, I had also written on tours to some local places in Kerala and a return journey that my husband and I took to Singapore. I had always entertained sweet memories of this child hood home which I had left after my Senior Cambridge 'O' level examinations in 1972 at my father's insistence that the whole family should return to India. I had continued on with my studies , having completed M.Tech in Chemical Engineering and procuring a career as a Lecturer and progressing to the status of Professor in the government engineering colleges of Kerala. My siblings too fared well in their studies and got reliable jobs , my sister in the Kerala Treasury Department and my two brothers in Muscat and Dubai respectively. After retirement, I decided to write English essays as reading and writing in that language had been my passion in my schooldays and pre- degree college days. Hence my return to my passion after retirement. An essay and some letters on relevant topics in the Hindu were published . However after that , a sudden stop in publication although I continued to write essays on matter I found interesting. Hence I decided to pay to have my essays published online by such printing publications like the Notion Press and BUUKs. Not so successful but still satisfying my inner soul. The two books that came out of my prolific urge were' Reminiscences' and ' A Critique of Bhima- Lone Warrior ' an English translation of M.T.Vasudevan's Malayalam novel ' Randamoorai , a sympathetic presentation of Bhima, the second son of the Pandava brothers in the great Hindu epic 'Mahabharata'. The two books were released in 2018 and 2020 respectively. Now , after presenting umpteen essays, reviews of both novels and films which enthralled me , and places visited , in Facebook (Shemeela's Page and Newsfeed) I decided to come out with this third publication by Clever Fox Publishers on seventeen essays which I hope to entrance readers.



Essays on the Essay

Author : Alexander J. Butrym

Publisher : Athens : University of Georgia Press

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 20,41 MB

Release : 1989

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780820311685

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Assorted Prose

Author : John Updike

Publisher : Random House

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 13,5 MB

Release : 2012-09-18

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0679645837

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John Updike’s first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer’s youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and “Talk of the Town” reports, the fruits of Updike’s boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux d’esprit are followed by “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” an immortal account of Ted Williams’s last at-bat in Fenway Park; “The Dogwood Tree,” a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiographical essays and stories. Rounding out the volume are classic considerations of Nabokov, Salinger, Spark, Beckett, and others, the earliest efforts of the book reviewer who would go on to become, in The New York Times’s estimation, “the pre-eminent critic of his generation.” Updike called this collection “motley but not unshapely.” Some would call it a classic of its kind.



The Collected Schizophrenias

Author : Esmé Weijun Wang

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 175 pages

File Size : 49,43 MB

Release : 2019-06-27

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0141991542

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'Dazzling ... in her kaleidoscopic essays, memoir has been shattered into sliding and overlapping pieces ... mind-expanding' The New York Times Book Review Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder in 2013, although the hallucinations and psychotic episodes had started years before that. In the midst of a high functioning life at Yale, Stanford and the literary world, she would find herself floored by an overwhelming terror that 'spread like blood', or convinced that she was dead, or that her friends were robots, or spiders were eating holes in her brain. What happens when your whole conception of yourself is turned upside down? When you're aware of what is occurring to you, but unable to do anything about it? Written with immediacy and unflinching honesty, this visceral and moving book is Wang's story, as she steps both inside and outside of her condition to bring it to light. Following her own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in her life, she ranges over everything from how we label mental illness to her own use of fashion and make-up to present herself as high-functioning, from the failures of the higher education system to how factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease compounded her experiences. Wang's analytical, intelligent eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with haunting personal narrative. The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core and provides unique insight into a condition long misdiagnosed and much misunderstood.



Selected Essays

Author : John Berger

Publisher : Pantheon

Page : 616 pages

File Size : 23,57 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Art and society

ISBN :

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On the occasion of his seventy-fith birthday, Pantheon is publishing a gathering of John Berger's most insightful and provocative writings on art over the past forty years. "Selected Essays brings together a comprehensive array of writings from Berger's previous collections: "Toward Reality, "The Moment of Cubism, "The Look of Things," About Looking, "The Sense of Sight, and "Keeping a Rendezvous. From Piero to Pollock, from Kokoschka to La Tour, from mass demonstrations to museums-the ideas in these essays are as fresh and compelling as they were when first published. Polemical, meditative, radical, always original, they display a remarkable continuity of thoughtful inquiry and political engagement.



Healing Fictions

Author : Alison Armstrong

Publisher : Xlibris Corporation

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 22,44 MB

Release : 2019-01-24

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1984563823

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The virtual realities that works of literary and visual art provide us are loosely the concern of these essays. Working methods are touched upon in some, as in my interviews with William Anastasi and Robert Kipniss. The intentionality of the artist, however, is never my concern, nor should it be of interest to the reader; the intentions cannot necessarily be derived from the work (as the New Critics reminded us long ago). Rather, to see and feel how the text or work of visual functions is our pleasant task. So we do not ask why, a dead-end question. How is the question that can lead to infinitely more rewarding discoveries.



AQA A-level Philosophy Year 2

Author : Jeremy Hayward

Publisher : Hodder Education

Page : 461 pages

File Size : 18,47 MB

Release : 2018-05-14

Category : Study Aids

ISBN : 1471899845

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Exam board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Philosophy First teaching: September 2017 First exams: Summer 2019 Enable students to critically engage with the new 2017 AQA specifications with this accessible Student Book that covers the key concepts and philosophical arguments, offers stimulating activities, provides a key text anthology and assessment guidance. - Cements understanding of complex philosophical concepts and encourages students to view ideas from different approaches through clear and detailed coverage of key topics. - Strengthens students' analytical skills to develop their own philosophical interpretations using a variety of inventive and thought-provoking practical activities and tasks. - Encourages students to engage with the anthology texts, with references throughout and relevant extracts provided at the back of the book for ease of teaching and studying. - Stretches students' conceptual analysis with extension material. - Helps AS and A-level students to approach their exams with confidence with assessment guidance and support tailored to the AQA requirements.



Encountering Freud

Author : Paul Roazen

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 49,80 MB

Release : 2017-09-08

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1351317067

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In this volume Paul Roazen examines different national responses to Freud and the beginnings of psychoanalysis. He examines Freud's work in the contexts of law, society, and class, as well as other forms of psychology. Encountering Freud includes a brilliant essay on Freud and the question of psychoanalysis' contribution to radical thought, in contrast to the conservative tradition. Roazen takes up the extravagant claims of Marcuse and Reich, and sees the risks of then overglamorization of the beginnings of psychoanalysis as a profession. Roazen views the legacies of Harry Stack Sullivan, Helene Deutsch, and Erik H. Erikson as less rich because their work conformed to the social status quo. He sees Freud's inability to avoid an ambiguous outcome as a lack of concern with normality and a refusal to own up to the wide variety of psychological solutions he found both therapeutically tolerable and humanly desirable. Roazen concludes with a series of explorations on the dichotomies Freud left behind: clinical discoveries versus philosophical standpoints; the relationship of normality to nihilism; and a defense of a therapeutic setting based on trained specialists versus a therapeutic approach encouraging self-expression. This is a volume that utilizes a sharp focus on Freud and his followers and dissenters to explore the question of political psychology at one end and psych-history at the other end of analysis.



Inter State

Author : José Vadi

Publisher : Catapult

Page : 157 pages

File Size : 13,85 MB

Release : 2021-09-14

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1593766963

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A "must read" debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life (Los Angeles Times). California has been advertised as a destiny manifested for those ready to pull up their bootstraps and head west across to find wealth on the other side of the Sierra Nevada since the 19th century. Across the seven essays in the debut collection by José Vadi, we hear from the descendants of those not promised that prize. Inter State explores California through many lenses: an aging obsessed skateboarder; a self-appointed dive bar DJ; a laid-off San Francisco tech worker turned rehired contractor; a grandson of Mexican farmworkers pursuing the crops they tilled. Amidst wildfires, high speed rail, housing crises, unprecedented wealth and its underlying decay, Inter State excavates and roots itself inside those necessary stories and places lost in the ever-changing definitions of a selectively golden state.



Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia

Author : Nita Kumar

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 16,26 MB

Release : 2020-02-20

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1350137073

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How do women express individual agency when engaging in seemingly prescribed or approved practices such as religious fasting? How are sectarian identities played out in the performance of food piety? What do food practices tell us about how women negotiate changes in family relationships? This collection offers a variety of distinct perspectives on these questions. Organized thematically, areas explored include the subordination of women, the nature of resistance, boundary making and the construction of identity and community. Methodologically, the essays use imaginative reconstructions of women's experiences, particularly where the only accounts available are written by men. The essays focus on Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, Sri Lankan Buddhist women and South Asians in the diaspora in the US and UK. Pioneering new research into food and gender roles in South Asia, this will be of use to students of food studies, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.