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This volume contains the original versions of James Hogg's
contributions to Scottish periodicals, including newspapers,
literary journals and specialist agricultural journals, which were
an important outlet for Hogg's work throughout his literary life
and his contributions cover many of his favourite themes and styles
including the supernatural, rural life, current events, books,
human relationships and Scottish history appearing in short
stories, songs, poems, newspaper reports, letters to the editor,
travel writing and articles on Scottish life, culture and country.
The volume provides examples of the range and diversity of themes,
genres and styles found in Hogg's work from the time when he first
came to live in Edinburgh to try and establish himself as an author
in 1810 till the time of his death.
It has been thirty years since Agnes last visited the country of
her birth and upbringing. While it is at the request of her aging,
narcissistic mother, she has her own reasons for making the journey
to Australia from her home on Mallorca. Something has blighted her
life since childhood. Something has cast such a long shadow over
her existence that her ability to grasp at life fully, to
appreciate her own sense of self-worth, to attain any semblance of
happiness, to trust without reservation, has been damaged. Those
whom she chooses, and who choose her, seem to want only to exploit
her. Having undergone a long period of psychotherapy, Agnes can now
return to re-experience the places that featured in her youth in
the hope that burning questions will be answered, haunting
mysteries solved, and buried memories let out into the light...
This is the vibrant, heartening, and often amusing tale of a
buoyant and irrepressible woman whose natural energy and
determination continue to drive her forward. Having reached middle
age, she is determined to grapple with - and heal - the ills that
have beset her.
The Siege of Malta is one of Scott's most moving works. The story
of the Siege itself is remarkable, with its combination of
individual defeat and group survival against overwhelming odds. It
had been part of Scott's mental furniture from his early days, and
it acquires a new and powerful resonance when remembered alongside
his then-failing health. To read it is an enlarging experience,
which anyone at all interested in Scott should share.
The incomplete narrative of Bizarro is also a fascinating document
from the end of Scott's life. In it he returns to the figure of the
bandit/outlaw which had intrigued him all his life and had played
such an important part in two of his greatest novels, in the
persons of Rob Roy himself in Rob Roy and Robin Hood in Ivanhoe.
* The only available editions of these two works by Scott
* Provides reading texts that remain broadly faithful to the
manuscripts, but tidying them up in the way that the original
intermediaries might have been expected to do
* Diplomatic transcriptions, which involves attempting to reproduce
the manuscripts as faithfully as possible in type, using
appropriate conventions to indicate deletions and doubtful
readings
* Access to a digital reproduction of the manuscripts on an
accompanying CD
* An Essay on the Text that outlines its genesis and composition,
describing the manuscripts, and presenting and illustrating the
procedures involved in preparing the reading text
* A Historical Note and set of Explanatory Notes along with a
combined Glossary
* Accompanying CD containing digital photographs of the
manuscripts.
Scott wrote short stories throughout his career, some included
within novels, others published separately in periodicals. This
collection of the stories from periodicals extends from his
earliest published fiction to his last and comprises pieces from
The Edinburgh Annual Register (1811), The Sale-Room (1817),
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817-1818) and The Keepsake
(1828-1831). Only three of these stories have been regularly
reprinted; the other five are here made readily available for the
first time. Publication in periodicals offered Scott new
opportunities to explore the potential of the short story form and
to demonstrate his enormous versatility as a writer of fiction.
This is one of Hogg's longest and also one of his most original and
daring works. Gillian Hughes's uncovering of the original
manuscript in the Fales Library of New York University in August
2001 allows the editors to produce here a text that reflects Hogg's
original intentions. Alongside the two main plots (the supernatural
located at Aikwood Castle and the chivalric located at Roxburgh
Castle) a series of embedded narratives provides the reader with,
amongst other things, pictures of the traditional and timeless
world of rural life in which Hogg had grown up and of early
Scottish history. The name Sir Walter Scott (used through most of
the manuscript) is restored along with passages excised from the
manuscript or omitted when the printed edition was prepared and in
several cases Hogg's more daringly explicit language has been
brought back where the printed edition has bowdlerised or subdued
the expression. The restoration of the name in particular makes
explicit how much this novel represents a challenge to Scott's
dominance in the portrayal of chivalry and the Middle Ages in
general. Any attempt to assess Hogg as a major novelist, and in
particular as a major historical novelist, must consider this
edition of The Three Perils of Man.
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For all the time we spend craving leisure time, discussing it,
dreaming about it and planning for it, few among us use it well.
Now, cozy up in a comfortable chair with this book and share a
margarita with couples who have found a way to fill their
retirement years with passion, purpose, and potential. Listen as
singles discuss how they live comfortably in Mexico on just their
Social Security. Visit with retirees who have discovered the joy of
making a difference in their community. You'll laugh, cheer and cry
with these gutsy gringos as they transition from their structured
working lives to rewarding retirements in Mexico. They tell it like
it is-the rewards and the frustrations. The boomers talk about
moving to Lakeside, the real costs of living here, security, crime,
health care options, community, what they miss from back home, and
their answers to that oft-asked question from friends and loved
ones: "But what do you do all day?" This book is unlike any book
you've read about moving to or living in Mexico. It doesn't focus
on the the wheres, the whats and the hows. Instead, you're invited
to appreciate-up close and personally-the experience of retiring on
Lake Chapala's beautiful north shore.
Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child:
Healing through Intervention approaches trauma from
transgenerational perspectives that go back to the early
colonization of Australia, and describes what that event has
historically meant for the country's Aboriginal population and its
culture. This history has continued to propagate traumatically
across subsequent generations. This book reveals the work underway
at Gunawirra, a group in Sydney founded to work against
transgenerational trauma in families with children aged 0-5. The
group then began working with projects in more than forty country
preschools throughout the state of New South Wales. Two intrinsic
forms of healing that are an integral part of this ancient culture:
Dadirri (deep listening), and The Dreaming, are foundational
concepts for the treatment. While these concepts are core elements
of the project, this book also employs fresh contemporary theory
and case studies that present ways to effectively address the
deeper psychological origins and presence of trauma in our
present-day preschool children, and in traumatized children
throughout the world. It gives special attention to the use of
therapeutic measures based in psychoanalytic thought and related
modes of responding to trauma. Through many moving examples the
book unites-through art, stories of The Dreaming, and the ancient
gift of listening-a powerful way of approaching present-day work
with Aboriginal people and their children. The contributors' work
is at the forefront of field research, clinical work, and
theoretical interdisciplinary work. This book is essential to
workers and teachers who deal daily with traumatized children in
their communities and schools. In the usefulness of its model, the
depth of its thinking, and the intensity of its methodology,
Transgenerational Trauma and the Aboriginal Preschool Child breaks
new ground in the treatment of trauma for people who care for
children everywhere.
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