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Natural Flights of the Human Mind
Author | : Clare Morrall |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2010-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062008684 |
Peter Straker lives in a converted lighthouse on the Devon coast with a fine view of the sea, two cats, and no neighbors. That's just the way he likes it. He speaks to no one except in his dreams, where he converses with some of the seventy-eight people he believes he killed nearly a quarter-century earlier -- though he can't quite remember how it happened. But Straker's carefully preserved solitude is about to be invaded by Imogen Doody, a prickly and unapproachable school caretaker with a painful history herself. Against his will -- and hers -- Straker soon finds himself helping Imogen repair the run-down cottage she's inherited. There are forces gathering, however, as the twenty-fifth anniversary of Straker's crime approaches, and they're intent upon disturbing his precarious peace.
Natural Flights of the Human Mind
Author | : Clare Morrall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Alienation (Social psychology) |
ISBN | : 9781405613392 |
This Invisible Riot of the Mind
Author | : Gloria Sybil Gross |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1512802298 |
In This Invisible Riot of the Mind, Gloria Sybil Gross contends that Samuel Johnson was a pioneer in the development of modern psychological thought, challenging the timeworn, stilted typecasting of Samuel Johnson as the pious Christian moralist. Instead, she argues that Johnson was a daring, at times irreverent, explorer of human nature, who strenuously rejected old relics of sanctimony and repressive authority. To make her case, Gross draws on a wide range of materials from Johnson's life and works, as well as from eighteenth-century medical psychology. Throughout, she is scrupulous in analyzing Johnson's psychological thought within the cultural idiom that would have been available to him. At the same time, she employs a classical psychoanalytic approach, that seeks to establish a coherent relationship among Johnson's life, his fantasies, and his creative work. This reading of Johnson reveals the radical direction of his investigations of mental experience, which put him in clear prospect of the basic premises underlying Freudian psychoanalysis. Gross argues that these premises—the principle of psychological determinism, the view of the mind as dictated by forces in conflict, the concept of the dynamic unconscious, and the submerged power of desire in all human activity—pervade Johnson's writings. Gross demonstrates not only that Johnson can profitably be read in psychoanalytic terms, but that Johnson is a psychological theorist of primary importance. This original and insightful work will be of interest to students and scholars of English literature, eighteenth-century studies, and literature and psychology.
Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)
Author | : M.P. Singh |
Publisher | : Lotus Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Quotations, English |
ISBN | : 9788183820080 |
The Natural Flights of the Human Mind Are Not from Pleasure to Pleasure But from Hope to Hope Gratitude Journal
Author | : Matt Stevens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781090622884 |
Gratitude is a feeling of appreciation for what one has. Being grateful yields many benefits be it physical, mental or spiritual. Make it a daily practice to write down what you are grateful for and life will seem less stressful and better.
Charlotte Lennox
Author | : Susan Carlile |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1442626232 |
Charlotte Lennox (c. 1729-1804) was an eighteenth-century English novelist whose most celebrated work, The Female Quixote (1752), is just one of eighteen works spanning a forty-three year career. Susan Carlile's critical biography of Lennox focuses on her role as the central figure in the professionalization of authorship in England.
The Body Economic
Author | : Catherine Gallagher |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2009-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400826845 |
The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic "life," making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.
Zen Master Next Door
Author | : Edward Kardos |
Publisher | : Green Dragon Books |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2012-03 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0893348678 |
These modern day parables in Zen Master Next Door send positive messages that are simple and inspiring. Based in the truth, they are an insightful means to explore our many relationships and how they touch our soul. Relevant and timely, these stories underscore our yearning to live an inspired life and they show that deep-rooted and ancient ideals are as mainstream as our exchanges with our neighbor next door. These parables are gentle but strong. They embrace but let go. They are simple and complex just like our own lives. They are, of course, parables. What others are saying about this book: What an inspiring way to learn about our very soul. These modern day parables in Zen Master Next Door are compelling and left me wanting more. - Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind