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Author |
: Emma Bond |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2017-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351569354 |
ISBN-13 |
: 135156935X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disrupted Narratives by : Emma Bond
If Madame Bovary's death in Flaubert's 1857 novel marked the definitive end of the Romantic vision of literary disease, then the advent of psychoanalysis less than half a century later heralded an entirely new set of implications for literature dealing with illness. The theorization of a potential unconscious double (capable of expressing the body, and thus also the intimate damage caused by disease) in turn suggested a capacity to subvert or destabilize the text, exposing the main thread of the narrative to be unreliable or self-conscious. Indeed, the authors examined in this study (Italo Svevo (1861-1928), Giorgio Pressburger (1937-) and Giuliana Morandini (1938-)) all make use of individual 'infected' or suppressed voices within their texts which unfold through illness to cast doubt on a more (conventionally) dominant narrative standpoint. Applying the theories of Freud and more recent writings by Julia Kristeva, Bond offers a new critical reading of the literary function of illness, a function related to the very nature of narration itself.
Author |
: Gay Becker |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2023-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520919242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520919246 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disrupted Lives by : Gay Becker
Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor—a flat tire, an unexpected phone call—to the fateful—a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker follows hundreds of people to find out what they do after something unexpected occurs. Starting with bodily distress, she shows how individuals recount experiences of disruption metaphorically, drawing on important cultural themes to help them reestablish order and continuity in their lives. Through vivid and poignant stories of people from different walks of life who experience different types of disruptions, Becker examines how people rework their ideas about themselves and their worlds, from the meaning of disruption to the meaning of life itself. Becker maintains that to understand disruption, we must also understand cultural definitions of normalcy. She questions what is normal for a family, for health, for womanhood and manhood, and for growing older. In the United States, where life is expected to be orderly and predictable, disruptions are particularly unsettling, she contends. And, while continuity in life is an illusion, it is an effective one because it organizes people's plans and expectations. Becker's phenomenological approach yields a rich, compelling, and entirely original narrative. Disrupted Lives acknowledges the central place of discontinuity in our existence at the same time as it breaks new ground in understanding the cultural dynamics that underpin life in the United States. FROM THE BOOK:"The doctor was blunt. He does not mince words. He did a [semen] analysis and he came back and said, 'This is devastatingly poor.' I didn't expect to hear that. It had never occurred to me. It was such a shock to my sense of self and to all these preconceptions of my manliness and virility and all of that. That was a very, very devastating moment and I was dumbfounded. . . . In that moment it totally changed the way that I thought of myself." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998. Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor—a flat tire, an unexpected phone call—to the fateful—a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a
Author |
: Gaylene Becker |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520209145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520209141 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disrupted Lives by : Gaylene Becker
Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. And the ways in which we come to understand and cope with these disruptions can say as much about our cultural heritage as they say about us as individuals. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker follows hundreds of people to find out what they do after something unexpected occurs. Starting with bodily distress, she shows how individuals recount experiences of disruption metaphorically, drawing on important cultural themes to help them reestablish order and continuity in their lives.
Author |
: Jennifer M. Hawkins |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 237 |
Release |
: 2019-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498592642 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1498592643 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Narratives of Health Disruption and Illness by : Jennifer M. Hawkins
Through vivid and engaging narrative accounts, written and collected by women, Women's Narratives of Health Disruption and Illness: Within and Across Their Life Stories explores how women experience the health disruptions and illnesses that span their lives. The collection examines how women’s broader and ongoing life stories impact and are impacted by health disruptions and illnesses. Organized into three parts, the chapters explore “Beginnings” in which health disruptions and illnesses impact early life, motherhood, and where early choices create the origins of health issues that impact later life; “Middles” which explores health experiences in and around middle age, or from the standpoint in middle-age looking back and forth; and “Endings” which explores narratives of ageing and end of life communication. Personal, revealing, and often beautiful, the women’s narratives featured in this book will invite the reader into the stories and lives of others, and toward the reflection, learning, and personal transformation that comes from truly connecting with the experiences of others. This book will be helpful for scholars of communication, health, women’s studies, family studies, and sociology.
Author |
: Oliver Bray |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2020-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004399426 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004399429 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Voicing Trauma and Truth: Narratives of Disruption and Transformation by : Oliver Bray
Author |
: Thomas Brown |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2024-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783385534537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3385534534 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Annals of the Disruption. Consisting Chiefly of Extracts from the Autograph Narratives of Ministers who Left the Scottish Estlablishment in 1843 by : Thomas Brown
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author |
: Thomas Brown |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 910 |
Release |
: 1893 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB11576793 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Annals of the Disruption, with Extracts from the Narratives of Ministers who Left the Scottish Establishment in 1843. By Thomas Brown by : Thomas Brown
Author |
: Benjamin H. Snyder |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190203498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190203498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Disrupted Workplace by : Benjamin H. Snyder
The twenty-first century workplace compels Americans to be more flexible, often at a cost to their personal well-being. In The Disrupted Workplace, Benjamin Snyder examines how three groups of American workers construct moral order in a capitalist system that demands flexibility. Snyder argues that new scheduling techniques, employment strategies, and technologies disrupt the flow and trajectory of working life, transforming how workers experience time. Work can feel both liberating and terrorizing, engrossing in the short term but unsustainable in the long term. Through a vivid portrait of workers' struggles to adapt their lives to constant disruption, The Disrupted Workplace mounts a compelling critique of the price of the flexible economy.
Author |
: Nancy Odendaal |
Publisher |
: Policy Press |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 2023-01-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781529218572 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1529218578 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disrupted Urbanism by : Nancy Odendaal
The ‘smart city’ is often promoted as a technology-driven solution to complex urban issues. Drawing on original research conducted in urban African settings, this book provides a much-needed alternative view, exploring how ‘home-grown’ digital disruption, driven and initiated by local actors, upending the mainstream corporate narrative.
Author |
: Anita Garey |
Publisher |
: Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2014-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826519863 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826519865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Open to Disruption by : Anita Garey
At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways. They illustrate how world events such as 9/11 and economic cycles impact individual biographies. Some researchers describe how disruptions prompted them to expand the boundaries of their discipline and invent concepts that could more accurately describe phenomena that previously had no name and no scholarly history. Sometimes scholars themselves caused the disruption as they circled back to work they had considered "done" and allowed the possibility of rethinking earlier findings.