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The first of the late Marianne Fritz's works to be translated into
English. This dark gem of a novel swerves from uneasy pantomime
comedy to sheer domestic horror. Fritz has a clammy handle on all
that makes humans miserable: roll up for the horrors of jealousy,
war, confinement, mental illness, regret and unhappy motherhood.
The Weight of Things is the first book, and the first translated
book by Austrian writer Marianne Fritz (1948-2007). After winning
acclaim with this novel-awarded the Robert Walser Prize in 1978-she
embarked on a brilliant and ambitious literary project called "The
Fortress," which earned her cult status, comparisons to James
Joyce, and admirers including Elfriede Jelinek and W. G. Sebald.
Yet in this, her first novel, we discover not an eccentric fluke of
literary nature but rather a brilliant and masterful satirist,
philosophically minded yet raging with anger and wit, who under the
guise of a domestic horror story manages to expose the hypocrisy
and deep abiding cruelties running parallel, over time, through the
society and the individual minds of a century.
Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of
Healing: More than Words examines a number of widely used
expressive arts therapies from a communication perspective,
providing case studies and other qualitative investigations focused
specifically on communication aspects of expressive therapies
including drama, music, and dance/movement therapies. This
collection, edited by Kamran Afary and Alice Marianne Fritz and
authored by contributors with experience as educators, artists, and
licensed therapists, integrates communication, therapy, and
pedagogy to explore the role and efficacy of expressive arts
therapies. Scholars of communication, performing arts, and mental
health will find this book particularly useful, along with mental
health practitioners and scholars conducting fieldwork.
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