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Author: Geo Walsh Publisher: ISBN: 9781723815560 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
When a fast-moving illness paralyzes George Walsh, he can't move a muscle, breathe on his own, or open his eyes. But his mind is still normal and he's aware of all that happens to him. He's "totally locked in" - a prisoner inside his own body. This true story escorts you on a journey through his dark world, a world of terror as everything collapses in on him. Will his doctor find the cure in time to save his life? Will his family hold together through the crisis? Will he discover - or be given - a reason to fight back when there seems to be no reason left to live? A Fallen Marionette is an emotionally powerful, life-affirming memoir of a man confronting deadly disease and his own humanity. It's also a timely, inspiring story with which every reader can identify, a compelling read start to finish. The book deals with mysterious and undiagnosed disease, patient advocacy, addiction to painkillers and opioids, communicating with locked-in patients, HMO and insurance company disputes, botulism, physical therapy and occupational therapy, long-term medical care, transitional care, suicidal thoughts, finding encouragement despite catastrophic illness.
Author: Geo Walsh Publisher: ISBN: 9781723815560 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
When a fast-moving illness paralyzes George Walsh, he can't move a muscle, breathe on his own, or open his eyes. But his mind is still normal and he's aware of all that happens to him. He's "totally locked in" - a prisoner inside his own body. This true story escorts you on a journey through his dark world, a world of terror as everything collapses in on him. Will his doctor find the cure in time to save his life? Will his family hold together through the crisis? Will he discover - or be given - a reason to fight back when there seems to be no reason left to live? A Fallen Marionette is an emotionally powerful, life-affirming memoir of a man confronting deadly disease and his own humanity. It's also a timely, inspiring story with which every reader can identify, a compelling read start to finish. The book deals with mysterious and undiagnosed disease, patient advocacy, addiction to painkillers and opioids, communicating with locked-in patients, HMO and insurance company disputes, botulism, physical therapy and occupational therapy, long-term medical care, transitional care, suicidal thoughts, finding encouragement despite catastrophic illness.
Author: Kenneth Gross Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226309606 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 222
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The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gesture and voice. In this eloquent book, Kenneth Gross contemplates the fascination of these unsettling objects—objects that are also actors and images of life. The poetry of the puppet is central here, whether in its blunt grotesquery or symbolic simplicity, and always in its talent for metamorphosis. On a meditative journey to seek the idiosyncratic shapes of puppets on stage, Gross looks at the anarchic Punch and Judy show, the sacred shadow theater of Bali, and experimental theaters in Europe and the United States, where puppets enact everything from Baroque opera and Shakespearean tragedy to Beckettian farce. Throughout, he interweaves accounts of the myriad faces of the puppet in literature—Collodi’s cruel, wooden Pinocchio, puppetlike characters in Kafka and Dickens, Rilke’s puppet-angels, the dark puppeteering of Philip Roth’s Micky Sabbath—as well as in the work of artists Joseph Cornell and Paul Klee. The puppet emerges here as a hungry creature, seducer and destroyer, demon and clown. It is a test of our experience of things, of the human and inhuman. A book about reseeing what we know, or what we think we know, Puppet evokes the startling power of puppets as mirrors of the uncanny in life and art.
Author: Catherine Butler Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1137336773 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 200
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Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is a worldwide classic of modern literature for both children and adults. Challenging in its intellectual scope, ambitious scale and range of literary reference, it is also hugely controversial due to its critique of organised religion. This collection of original essays by an international team of distinguished scholars assesses Pullman's achievement and introduces readers to some of the key debates surrounding His Dark Materials. Covering topics such as religion, gender, childhood and scientific enquiry, the volume also discusses the Hollywood film of the first book and features a new interview with Pullman himself.
Author: Wen Ding Publisher: Funstory ISBN: 1636459943 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1014
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Mercenary King Chen Yang returned to the city to protect his comrade's sister, the goddess. In the bustling city, Chen Yang was like a fish in water, carefree and at ease. And to see how the previous generation's soldiers would use their iron fists and wits to build a business empire...
Author: Jane Goodall Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134156499 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 232
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This fascinating study differentiates stage presence from charisma and stardom, to explore the co-presence of and relationship between performer and audience.
Author: John Evans Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises ISBN: 1598864874 Category : Languages : en Pages : 148
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However, he soon discovers that the old adage is true; nothing is as it seems. Now he must confront a far greater evil, and accept a destiny that could spell the end of not just the universe, but the infinite number of realities that surround it. The Fallen is filled with good humor, brilliant imagery, and a philosophical/religious approach that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
Author: Catherine Diamond Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 082486767X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 406
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Asian theatre is usually studied from the perspective of the major traditions of China, Japan, India, and Indonesia. Now, in this wide-ranging look at the contemporary theatre scene in Southeast Asia, Catherine Diamond shows that performance in some of the lesser known theatre traditions offers a vivid and fascinating picture of the rapidly changing societies in the region. Diamond examines how traditional, modern, and contemporary dramatic works, with their interconnected styles, stories, and ideas, are being presented for local audiences. She not only places performances in their historical and cultural contexts but also connects them to the social, political, linguistic, and religious movements of the last two decades. Each chapter addresses theatre in a different country and highlights performances exhibiting the unique conditions and concerns of a particular place and time. Most performances revolve in some manner around “contemporary modernity,” questioning what it means—for good or ill—to be a part of the globalized world. Chapters are grouped by three general and overlapping themes. The first, which includes Thailand, Vietnam, and Bali, is characterized by the increased participation of women in the performing arts—not only as performers but also as playwrights and directors. Cambodia, Singapore, and Myanmar are linked by a shared concern with the effects of censorship on theatre production. A third group, the Philippines, Laos, and Malaysia, is distinguished by a focus on nationalism: theatres are either contributing to official versions of historical and political events or creating alternative narratives that challenge those interpretations. Communities of Imagination shows the many influences of the past and how the past continues to affect cultural perceptions. It addresses major trends, suggesting why they have developed and why they are popular with the public. It also underscores how theatre continues to attract new practitioners and reflect the changing aspirations and anxieties of societies in immediate and provocative ways even as it is being marginalized by television, film, and the internet. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of theatre and performance, Asian literature, Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies, and gender studies. Travelers wishing to attend local performances as part of their experience abroad will find it an essential reference to theatres of the region.
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