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How to Read a Poem is an introduction to creative reading, the art
of coming up with something to say about a text. It presents a new
method for learning and teaching the skills of poetic
interpretation, providing its readers with practical steps they can
use to construct perceptive, inventive readings of any poem they
might read. The Introduction sets out the aims of the book and
provides some basic operating principles for applying the seven
steps. In each subsequent chapter, the step is introduced and
explained, relevant points of interpretative theory and methodology
are discussed and illustrated with multiple examples, and the step
is put into practice in a final section. Through these final
sections, step by step, the book develops an extended reading of a
single poem, Letitia Landon's "Lines Written under a Picture of a
Girl Burning a Love-Letter" from 1822. That reading is sustained
across the whole arc of the book, providing a detailed worked
example of how to read a poem. This accessible and enjoyable guide
is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching the detailed study
of poetry for the first time and offers valuable theoretical
insights for those more experienced in the area.
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this title was to
develop a conceptual framework for understanding individual humans
as complex, functional entities. It was felt that a sound
developmental theory of human personality and behaviour would help
synthesize existing scientific and clinical information into a
coherent representation of a person as a functional unit, guide
future research, and facilitate the work of the health and human
services professions. The volume is aimed at a
multidisciplinary-multiprofessional audience.
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume
to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems:
A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to
illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework
(LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding
research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating
the work of the health and human service professions. Although not
exactly a "how to" manual, it does provide many concrete examples
of how and when the framework can be used to guide scholarly and
professional activities. It also provides a concise overview of the
framework itself that can help those who have read the theoretical
volume refresh their memory, and assist those who have not, in
understanding the basic concepts of the LSF and in deciding whether
and how the framework might be useful to them.
How to Read a Poem is an introduction to creative reading, the art
of coming up with something to say about a text. It presents a new
method for learning and teaching the skills of poetic
interpretation, providing its readers with practical steps they can
use to construct perceptive, inventive readings of any poem they
might read. The Introduction sets out the aims of the book and
provides some basic operating principles for applying the seven
steps. In each subsequent chapter, the step is introduced and
explained, relevant points of interpretative theory and methodology
are discussed and illustrated with multiple examples, and the step
is put into practice in a final section. Through these final
sections, step by step, the book develops an extended reading of a
single poem, Letitia Landon's "Lines Written under a Picture of a
Girl Burning a Love-Letter" from 1822. That reading is sustained
across the whole arc of the book, providing a detailed worked
example of how to read a poem. This accessible and enjoyable guide
is the ideal introduction to anyone approaching the detailed study
of poetry for the first time and offers valuable theoretical
insights for those more experienced in the area.
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this title was to
develop a conceptual framework for understanding individual humans
as complex, functional entities. It was felt that a sound
developmental theory of human personality and behaviour would help
synthesize existing scientific and clinical information into a
coherent representation of a person as a functional unit, guide
future research, and facilitate the work of the health and human
services professions. The volume is aimed at a
multidisciplinary-multiprofessional audience.
Originally published in 1987, the purpose of this companion volume
to Donald Ford's (1987) Humans as Self-Constructing Living Systems:
A Developmental Perspective on Personality and Behavior was to
illustrate the potential utility of the Living Systems Framework
(LSF) for stimulating new theoretical advances, for guiding
research on human behavior and development, and for facilitating
the work of the health and human service professions. Although not
exactly a "how to" manual, it does provide many concrete examples
of how and when the framework can be used to guide scholarly and
professional activities. It also provides a concise overview of the
framework itself that can help those who have read the theoretical
volume refresh their memory, and assist those who have not, in
understanding the basic concepts of the LSF and in deciding whether
and how the framework might be useful to them.
Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word
'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it
could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the
character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift
of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of
William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the
new status of metaphor as Wordsworth and other poets re-imagined
poetry as a textual area of aerial communication - conveying the
breath of a transitory moment to other times and places via the
printed page. Reading Romantic poetry through this ecological and
ecocritical lens Ford goes on to ask what the poems of the Romantic
period mean for us in a new age of climate change, when the
relationship between physical climates and cultural, political and
literary atmospheres is once again being transformed.
Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word
'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it
could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the
character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift
of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of
William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the
new status of metaphor as Wordsworth and other poets re-imagined
poetry as a textual area of aerial communication - conveying the
breath of a transitory moment to other times and places via the
printed page. Reading Romantic poetry through this ecological and
ecocritical lens Ford goes on to ask what the poems of the Romantic
period mean for us in a new age of climate change, when the
relationship between physical climates and cultural, political and
literary atmospheres is once again being transformed.
A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key
'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism
at the peak of its philosophical reflection and aesthetic
experimentation.
The sexual abuse of children by women is an area that has not,
until now, been suitably acknowledged by professionals in the
sexual offending field. Over recent years, the number of studies of
such women has been growing steadily and this timely book provides
an overall picture of our understanding of this issue to date and
suggests where research efforts and practice developments could go
next.
"Women Who Sexually Abuse Children" begins by considering the
societal and professional understanding of sexual abuse by women
and why, until recently, such behaviour in women was widely denied
and minimised. The book moves on to discuss what is known about the
sexually abusive behaviour of women and some of the potentially
contributing factors to this behaviour. It also considers the
particular effects on victims of being abused by a woman.
Although researchers are increasing their study of this group of
abusers, the knowledge base remains small when compared with their
male counterparts and, inevitably, many more questions still remain
unanswered. Highlighting these gaps in our knowledge forms the
focus of the next part of the book, before it continues to consider
treatment needs and approaches with this group of offenders. The
final section aims to broaden the reader's thinking around this
issue with a discussion of two related topics: the female partners
of sexually abusive males and adolescent female sexual abusers.
This book offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage for
clinicians, practitioners and researchers working in the field of
child sexual abuse or those working with offenders.
A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key
'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism
at the peak of its philosophical reflection and aesthetic
experimentation.
There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other
creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's.
Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman
creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in
English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and
ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by
an array of international scholars from various fields, and
represent a diversity of interpretive approaches. In the course of
exploring the roles played by nonhuman animals and other creatures
in Kafka's writing, they help make sense of the literary and
philosophical significance of his preoccupation with animals, and
make clear that careful investigation of those creatures
illuminates his core concerns: the nature of power; the
inescapability of history and guilt; the dangers, promise, and
strangeness of the alienation endemic to modern life; the human
propensity for cruelty and oppression; the limits and conditions of
humanity and the risks of dehumanization; the nature of
authenticity; family life; Jewishness; and the nature of language
and art. Thus the essays in this volume enrich our understanding of
Kafka's work as a whole. Especially striking is the extent to which
the articles collected here bring into focus the ways in which
Kafka anticipated many of the recent developments in contemporary
thinking about nonhuman animals.
"Body language and Behavioral Profiling" is a timely book on the
vital roles of nonverbal communications and people reading in our
everyday lives. We all use body language to communicate our
innermost feelings, thoughts, and attitudes along with spoken
words. Knowing the hints, clues, signals, and signs that people use
in business and social settings helps people to interpret
behavioral motives, and enables them to rapidly organize
information for quick decisions that may be consequential. In
addition, facial expressions, posture, dress attire, and gestures
that people use all infer future behavior patterns. In this book,
body language signals and signs are broken down into understandable
topics backed by authoritative sources. Practical pointers help
readers to adopt better image and self-presentation skills. The
social science tools that are covered will help readers to "get"
the motives and behavior of others, while improving their own
intercommunications, which helps people make more informed
decisions, meet personal goals, and more fully protect themselves.
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