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Author: Byron Babbish Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492224082 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
A compilation of stories gleaned from a lifetime of watching, chasing, photographing and riding trains. The twenty-two chapters cover the author's lifetime affliction with "Train Madness," the state of mind where everything in life revolves around trains: From his first memories of trains, fear of conductors, photographing trains (and destroying cameras in the process), train rides (both legitimate and not-so-legitimate), searching out obscure rail lines and locomotives, encounters with railroad employees and witnessing unusual railroad events. All of the stories are funny. Many of the stories are hard to believe (thus the reason for many of the photographs). The book conveys one person's life long love of trains that can only be described as Train Madness.
Author: Byron Babbish Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492224082 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
A compilation of stories gleaned from a lifetime of watching, chasing, photographing and riding trains. The twenty-two chapters cover the author's lifetime affliction with "Train Madness," the state of mind where everything in life revolves around trains: From his first memories of trains, fear of conductors, photographing trains (and destroying cameras in the process), train rides (both legitimate and not-so-legitimate), searching out obscure rail lines and locomotives, encounters with railroad employees and witnessing unusual railroad events. All of the stories are funny. Many of the stories are hard to believe (thus the reason for many of the photographs). The book conveys one person's life long love of trains that can only be described as Train Madness.
Author: Luigi Pirandello Publisher: Branden Books ISBN: 9780937832264 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 172
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This book constitutes a unique selection from that monumental corpus, will introduce to the English reading public some of Pirandello's most moving novelle. In each of them one can sense the deep compassion the author must have felt for his characters, generally portrayed as disaffected victims of society, destiny, or their own self deceptions.
Author: Eunice Rojas Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739190873 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 231
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Spaces of Madness examines the role of the insane asylum in Argentine prose works published between 1889 and 2011. From a place of existential exile at the turn of the twentieth century to a symbolic representation of Argentine society during and immediately subsequent to the Dirty War, the figure of the asylum in Argentine literature has evolved along with the institution itself. The authors studied in Spaces of Madness include Manuel T. Podestá, Roberto Arlt, Leopoldo Marechal, Julio Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Juan José Saer, Abelardo Castillo, Ricardo Piglia, and Luisa Valenzuela.
Author: Lillian Feder Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691219737 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 351
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To probe the literary representation of the alienated mind, Lillian Feder examines mad protagonists of literature and the work of writers for whom madness is a vehicle of self-revelation. Ranging from ancient Greek myth and tragedy to contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama, Professor Feder shows how literary interpretations of madness, as well as madness itself, reflect the very cultural assumptions, values, and prohibitions they challenge.
Author: Erika Dyck Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press ISBN: 0887555357 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 483
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The Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn has played a significant role in the history of psychiatric services, mental health research, and providing care in the community. Its history provides a window to the changing nature of mental health services over the 20th century. Built in 1921, Saskatchewan Mental Hospital was considered the last asylum in North America and the largest facility of its kind in the British Commonwealth. A decade later the Canadian Committee for Mental Hygiene cited it as one of the worst facilities in the country, largely due to extreme overcrowding. In the 1950s the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital again attracted international attention for engaging in controversial therapeutic interventions, including treatments using LSD. In the 1960s, sweeping healthcare reforms took hold in the province and mental health institutions underwent dramatic changes as they began transferring patients into communities. As the patient and staff population shrunk, the once palatial building fell into disrepair, the asylum’s expansive farmland went out of cultivation, and mental health services folded into a complicated web of social and correctional services. Erika Dyck’s Managing Madness examines an institution that housed people we struggle to understand, help, or even try to change.
Author: Christina Hanganu-Bresch Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN: 1643360264 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 220
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An examination of the evolving rhetoric of psychiatric disease Diagnosing Madness is a study of the linguistic negotiations at the heart of mental illness identification and patient diagnosis. Through an examination of individual psychiatric case records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Carol Berkenkotter show how the work of psychiatry was navigated by patients, families, doctors, the general public, and the legal system. The results of examining those involved and their interactions show that the psychiatrist's task became one of constant persuasion, producing arguments surrounding diagnosis and asylum confinement that attempted to reconcile shifting definitions of disease and to respond to sociocultural pressures. By studying patient cases, the emerging literature of confinement, and patient accounts viewed alongside institutional records, the authors trace the evolving rhetoric of psychiatric disease, its impact on the treatment of patients, its implications for our contemporary understanding of mental illness, and the identity of the psychiatric patient. Diagnosing Madness helps elucidate the larger rhetorical forces that contributed to the eventual decline of the asylum and highlights the struggle for the professionalization of psychiatry.
Author: Kenzaburō Ōe Publisher: Grove Press ISBN: 9780802151858 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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Kenzaburō Ōe was ten when American soldiers entered his mountain village during World War II, and his writing "reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of the values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other ... [His] heroes have been expelled from the certainty of childhood, into a world that bears no relation to their past"--Back cover.
Author: Marta Peixoto Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 0816621594 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 146
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Passionate Fictions was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. "Clarice Lispector is the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century," Suzanne Ruta noted in the New York Times Book Review, "but because she is a woman and a Brazilian, she has remained virtually unknown in the United States." Passionate Fictions provides American readers with a critical introduction to this remarkable writer and offers those who already know Lispector's fiction a deeper understanding of its complex workings.
Author: Phillip Benedetto Publisher: Phillip Benedetto ISBN: 0595121543 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 154
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Torn between her loyalty to her neo-nazi conspirators and her husband, Jane Polansky becomes riddled with guilt. Although she married Robert Polansky, head of Diamond Tech, to get at military secrets, she grows to love her husband, a man who espouses fine human qualities, unlike the hatred and misery which encompassed Jane's life. Stored in the same location as the secrets is the world famous Polansky diamond collection, sought after by organized criminals who will stop at nothing to get at those diamonds. Waiting in the background is a psychopath planning to strike out against the outsiders invading his tranquil community recently transformed into a high tech Mecca. Industrial espionage contributes to the plot by Breitling from Electropulse AG, a major world class weapons manufacture who also wants those diamond lens secrets. Amidst it all is the discovery in Siberia of the world's largest diamond and Robert Polansky's attempt to acquire it. At Breitling's refuge on Great Albacore Cay in the Bahamas, submarine deployed Navy SEALs plan a strike. Who will be victorious? Does Jane find the love and security she craves. Who eventually ends up with all the wealth? How will it all end? Readers are kept on edge. Love, hate, adultery, revenge, international intrigue, robbery, and murder all contribute to the suspense.
Author: Byron Babbish
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Author: Erika Dyck
Author: Christina Hanganu-Bresch
Author: Kenzaburō Ōe
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