Nervous Fictions

Nervous Fictions
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780813944791
ISBN-13 : 0813944791
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Nervous Fictions by : Jess Keiser

"The brain contains ten thousand cells," wrote the poet Matthew Prior in 1718, "in each some active fancy dwells." In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, just as scientists began to better understand the workings of the nerves, the nervous system became the site for a series of elaborate fantasies. The pineal gland is transformed into a throne for the sovereign soul. Animal spirits march the nerves like parading soldiers. An internal archivist searches through cerebral impressions to locate certain memories. An anatomist discovers that the brain of a fashionable man is stuffed full of beautiful clothes and billet-doux. A hypochondriac worries that his own brain will be disassembled like a watch. A sentimentalist sees the entire world as a giant nervous system comprising sympathetic spectators. Nervous Fictions is the first account of the Enlightenment origins of neuroscience and the "active fancies" it generated. By surveying the work of scientists (Willis, Newton, Cheyne), philosophers (Descartes, Cavendish, Locke), satirists (Swift, Pope), and novelists (Haywood, Fielding, Sterne), Keiser shows how attempts to understand the brain’s relationship to the mind produced in turn new literary forms. Early brain anatomists turned to tropes to explicate psyche and cerebrum, just as poets and novelists found themselves exploring new kinds of mental and physical interiority. In this respect, literary language became a tool to aid scientific investigation, while science spurred literary invention.

Nervous System

Nervous System
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 1786499495
ISBN-13 : 9781786499493
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Nervous System by : Lina Meruane

Your Nervous System

Your Nervous System
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Publisher : Lerner Publications
Total Pages : 44
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ISBN-10 : 9780761374503
ISBN-13 : 0761374507
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Your Nervous System by : Joelle Riley

This book presents a basic examination of the human nervous system.

Nina Nandu's Nervous Noggin

Nina Nandu's Nervous Noggin
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Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Total Pages : 32
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ISBN-10 : 9781684440566
ISBN-13 : 1684440564
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Nina Nandu's Nervous Noggin by : Barbara deRubertis

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Nina Nandu has just moved to a new neighborhood, and she does NOT want to go to a new school. But Granny Nandu and teacher Alpha Betty have other ideas—plus a big surprise for Nina!

The Fear Talking

The Fear Talking
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1909954446
ISBN-13 : 9781909954441
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fear Talking by : Chris Westoby

A self-help memoir that takes an unflinching look at a young man's undiagnosed anxiety disorder and OCD. "'THIS IS WRITING AT ITS MOST FEARLESS.' Matt Bright, Everybody's Reviewing 'WESTOBY GIVES A VOICE TO TEENAGERS UNABLE TO COPE WITH EVERYDAY LIFE... THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL READ.' Paul Taylor-Mcartney, Writers in Education Chris Westoby takes us inside his past self, a teenager from a small English town. He's trying to be a good friend, student, son and boyfriend, but he struggles to be in company without wanting to hide. And things only get worse: it's nearly impossible to take the bus to college without catching the next bus home. His obsessive germaphobia begins to destroy his life. How can one boy overcome all this? Chris offers am unflinching, raw account of his troubles and offers what he's learnt. This book an outstretched hand to those fighting these same battles, or to anyone who's watching someone else go through the same. The Fear Talking does not promise to solve your problems, but it shows you that you're not alone. That's all Chris ever wanted, really; to unflinchingly capture the warmth and darkness of the teenage years. Some Expert Reactions 'Read this book, and you will never forget it. As a narrative it's fascinating. As the memoir of a life lived with anxiety, it's incomparable.' Peter Draper, Emeritus Professor of Nursing Education, UNIVERSITY OF HULL 'Anxiety is the most common form of mental distress and of course overlaps with normal human emotion. Yet it can be overwhelming and disabling and a gateway to other mental ill health notably depression and self-medication with alcohol and other substances. This engaging account throws a spotlight on how anxiety impacts on everyday life and relationships.' Patrick McGorry, Professor of Youth Mental Health, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 'In The Fear Talking, Chris Westoby achieves the well-nigh impossible, giving us a fully immersive account of adolescent anxiety, allowing the reader to feel and experience with the narrator. If one of the main aims of the memoir form is to induce empathy in readers, Westoby's memoir succeeds brilliantly. The reader comes away with a new and profound understanding of what mental illness feels like from within.' Jonathan Taylor, Associate Professor Creative Writing, UNIVERSITY OF LECEISTER

Nervous Acts

Nervous Acts
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 405
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ISBN-10 : 9780230505155
ISBN-13 : 0230505155
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Nervous Acts by : G. Rousseau

These essays demonstrate the sweeping influence of the human nervous system on the rise of literature and sensibility in early modern Europe. The brain and nerves have usually been treated as narrow topics within the history of science and medicine. Now George Rousseau, an international authority on the relations of literature and medicine, demonstrates why a broader context is necessary. The nervous system was a crucial factor in the rise of recent civilization. More than any other body part, it holds the key to understanding how far back the strains and stresses of modern life - fatigue, depression, mental illness - extend.

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 9781317321101
ISBN-13 : 1317321103
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Nervous Disease in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain by : Heather R Beatty

This study, based on extensive use of eighteenth-century newspapers, hospital registers and case notes, examines the experience of suffering from nervous disease – a supposedly upper-class malady. Beatty concludes that ‘nervousness’ was a legitimate medical diagnosis with a firm basis in eighteenth-century medical theory.

Nervous Nellie Fights First-Day Frenzy

Nervous Nellie Fights First-Day Frenzy
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Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 9781496536525
ISBN-13 : 1496536525
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Nervous Nellie Fights First-Day Frenzy by : Marne Ventura

Nellie is looking forward to the first day of school. But her heart drops when she learns she won't be with her friends, but with her worst enemy--and a teacher who is new to the school.

Constructing a Nervous System

Constructing a Nervous System
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9781524748180
ISBN-13 : 1524748188
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Constructing a Nervous System by : Margo Jefferson

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir "as electric as the title suggests" (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers Weekly The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. In Constructing a Nervous System, Jefferson shatters her self into pieces and recombines them into a new and vital apparatus on the page, fusing the criticism that she is known for, fragments of the family members she grieves for, and signal moments from her life, as well as the words of those who have peopled her past and accompanied her in her solitude, dramatized here like never before. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author’s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent’s voice. W. E. B. Du Bois and George Eliot meet illicitly. The muscles and movements of a ballerina are spliced with those of an Olympic runner, becoming a template for what a black female body can be. The result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching. Jefferson interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the fissures at the center of American cultural life.

Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780571368136
ISBN-13 : 0571368131
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Nervous Conditions by : Tsitsi Dangarembga

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 ' UNFORGETTABLE' Alice Walker 'THIS IS THE BOOK WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR' Doris Lessing 'A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE BOOK.' Booklist 'AN ABSORBING PAGE-TURNER' Bloomsbury Review 'A MASTERPIECE' Madeleine Thien 'ARRESTING' Kwame Anthony Appiah Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. A timeless coming-of-age tale, and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism, Nervous Conditions charts Tambu's journey to personhood in a fledgling nation. 'With its searing observations, devastating exploration of the state of "not being", wicked humour and astonishing immersion into the mind of a young woman growing up and growing old before her time, the novel is a masterpiece.' Madelein Thien