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This work deals with the fundamentals of novel writing and the
execution of such. Though it engages specific notions of literary
and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts
themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. The
novels include: Austen's "Northanger Abbey", Beckett's "Company",
Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", Cervantes' "Don Quixote", Flaubert's
"Madame Bovary", Hamsun's "Hunger", Hardy's "Tess of the
D'Urbervilles", Lispector's "Hour of the Star" and Smart's "By
Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept".
Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their
female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic
literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus
narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors
including Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the
theories of Jacques Lacan.
An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of
essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett,
and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread,
Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on
writing.
This volume is a collection of work spanning the last 20 years,
broken down into ten sections, each focusing on a specific domain
of psychology. Part I: The Psychology of Zombies includes a new
essay examining society's current love affair with the undead. Part
II: Violence on the Internet explores types of violence on the
internet and how to behaviorally assess the risk/threat they pose.
Part III of the book focuses on topics such as what it is like to
work as a Police Psychologist, outcome vs. process thinking, and
hostage negotiation. Stress, trauma, & crisis intervention is
the domain of psychology examined next. Part V: Criminology,
includes a review of gangs in the United States, the relationship
of criminal justice system to poverty, and an introduction to the
fundamentals of wound ballistics. Part VI: Divorce & Family
Conflict explores the impact of divorce and family conflict on the
adjustment of college students. Part VII: Theories of Personality,
examines personality from a variety of theoretical perspectives
using several famous characters from popular culture to illustrate
those theories. The next section of the book explores Memory &
Intelligence and examines topics such as the self-reference effect
and the accuracy of early childhood memory. Part IX: Psychological
Treatment focuses on issues relevant to the therapeutic practice of
psychology. The final part of this book, tackles issues from the
perspective of Sociology reviewing areas such as Freud's view of
religion and the growing importance of cross-cultural psychology.
Ten parts, forty chapters, a collection of disquisitions.
The purpose of this book is to help people understand what stress
is, what it does, what impact it can have on people, and what we
can do about it. This book begins by defining stress and discussing
the differences between stressors that are learned and stressors
that are instinctive. Next, how people find themselves "spinning
out of control" due to stress will be reviewed by explaining the
stress cycle, followed by a thorough discussion of the symptoms
related to both short-term and long-term stress. One potential
outcome of prolonged exposure to stress, burnout, will also be
examined and potential steps to avoid burnout will be presented.
This book will also provide a complete review of traumatic/critical
incident stress by defining what it is and explaining the phases of
trauma, discussing how a person is contaminated by traumatic
stress, and intervention strategies to lessen the impact of trauma.
Finally, because being able to manage stress effectively and
appropriately is the cornerstone of feeling better, being
healthier, and addressing a variety of health issues, both mental
and physical, this book will review numerous techniques for
managing stress and trauma in an effort to help people become more
effective at emptying their buckets.
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