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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links
between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through
to contemporary experimental forms. The collection’s engagement
with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive
survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform
literary studies and the arts. Featuring four sections, the first
part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and
literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive
neuroscience. Section two examines one of the most important
intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis
across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and
architectural treatises. The third and fourth sections consider
intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The
contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range
from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives,
illuminating the vibrant ways in which texts have intersected with
illustration, music, dance, architecture, painting, photography,
media installations, and television. Throughout this dynamic
collection of 37 chapters, the contributors evolve existing
critical debates in innovative new directions. The volume will be a
critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students,
as well as specialist scholars working in literary studies,
philosophy of art, text and image studies, and visual culture.
Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed
primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the
mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand
mental health and become rounded practitioners. It will also be
useful as a broad introduction for mental health nursing students.
Through clear explanations, examples and activities, the book will
help you to recognise and support people with mental health issues
whenever they are encountered in your practice. You will learn:
What mental health is and how it interacts with physical health
About different theories and models that are applied to
understanding mental illness How to relate to and communicate with
people experiencing mental health problems How to recognise the
common diagnosable mental health disorders and understand the
treatments and interventions that are applied to them About the
impact that mental health issues can have on people at different
stages of life, from childhood to adulthood and later life How to
apply legal and ethical frameworks and to assess risk when
supporting people with mental health issues. Written by a team of
highly experienced mental health academics and practitioners, this
book will help you to develop the underpinning knowledge and skills
you need and to apply them in your own field of practice.
Pre-publication reviews "Accessible and thorough, and definitely
well pitched for non-mental health clinicians." Senior Lecturer,
Mental Health Nursing "From an adult nursing point of view it's got
everything I would expect it to cover." Adult nursing student "The
book is very readable and accessible, I like the tone of the text
as it is informative, and the activities give you chance to
reflect.... The information is comprehensive without being too
wordy, but academically sound. This book should be on the reading
list for all nursing students and other HCP students. It should
also be on the book shelf in all nursing offices, [social worker]
offices, occupational health etc.." Mental health nursing student
"I would definitely recommend this book to non-specialists. I like
the breadth of areas that the book covers." Senior Lecturer, Mental
Health Nursing Essentials is a series of accessible, introductory
textbooks for students in nursing, health and social care. New and
forthcoming titles in the series: The Care Process Communication
Skills Leadership Learning Disabilities Mental Health Promoting
Health and Wellbeing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Study
Skills
The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how
each country to defend the frontier, and the political issues which
drove the Anglo-Scottish wars of the 1520s. The Anglo-Scottish War
of 1522-1524 saw the mobilisation of tens of thousands of men and
vast amounts of resources in both England and Scotland. Beyond its
British context, the war had a European significance: it formed an
element in the wider Valois-Habsburg struggles over Italy, with the
complex systems of alliances spreading the repercussions of this
struggle far across the continent and to the borders of England and
Scotland. Recent years have seen the emergence of a renewed debate
around the status of the Anglo-Scottish frontier and the wider
political and social conditions which predominated in the
borderlands of each kingdom. Although there has been a move to
present the Anglo-Scottish border as a porous frontier where the
populations on either side were closely connected, these
neighbourly links imploded rapidly in wartime when frontier
populations were co-opted into a national struggle. It is
significant that borderers were responsible for inflicting the
heaviest violence on each other during the war. Drawing on an
unprecedented access to English and Sottish sources of the
conflict, this book offers an important new contribution to both
Scottish and English history as well as the wider military history
of late medieval and early modern Europe. Aspects of military
mobilisation, logistics, the defence of frontiers, the use of
violence against civilians and wartime espionage feature
prominently.
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand
the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the
ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise.
It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of
study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling,
Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work
of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who
bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range
of mediums and genres – including biography and autobiography,
documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel,
opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more – the
contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from
expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended
analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every
major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages,
Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This
collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that
humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where
“live with” itself might mean any number of things: from
consoling, to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to
evading, and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping.
Engagingly written and drawing on examples from around the world,
this volume is indispensable to both students and scholars working
in the fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies),
life writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative,
contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand
the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the
ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise.
It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of
study and includes essays by Brian McHale, Catherine Belling,
Ronald Schleifer, Helen Swift, and Ira Nadel, as well as the work
of a generation of younger scholars from around the globe, who
bring valuable transnational insights. Encompassing a diverse range
of mediums and genres - including biography and autobiography,
documentary, drama, elegy, film, the novel and graphic novel,
opera, picturebooks, poetry, television, and more - the
contributors offer a dynamic mix of approaches that range from
expansive perspectives on particular periods and genres to extended
analyses of select case studies. Essays are included from every
major Western period, including Classical, Middle Ages,
Renaissance, and so on, right up to the contemporary. This
collection provides a telling demonstration of the myriad ways that
humanity has learned to live with the inevitability of death, where
"live with" itself might mean any number of things: from consoling,
to memorializing, to rationalizing, to fending off, to evading,
and, perhaps most compellingly of all, to escaping. Engagingly
written and drawing on examples from around the world, this volume
is indispensable to both students and scholars working in the
fields of medical humanities, thanatography (death studies), life
writing, Victorian studies, modernist studies, narrative,
contemporary fiction, popular culture, and more.
Essays address plague and disease in the fifteenth century, as
manifested throughout Europe. Described as "a golden age of
pathogens", the long fifteenth century was notable for a series of
international, national and regional epidemics that had a profound
effect upon the fabric of society. The impact of pestilence upon
the literary, religious, social and political life of men, women
and children throughout Europe and beyond continues to excite
lively debate among historians, as the ten papers presented in this
volume confirm. They deal with theresponse of urban communities in
England, France and Italy to matters of public health, governance
and welfare, as well as addressing the reactions of the medical
profession to successive outbreaks of disease, and of individuals
to the omnipresence of death, while two, very different, essays
examine the important, if sometimes controversial, contribution now
being made by microbiologists to our understanding of the Black
Death. Contributors: J.L. Bolton, Elma Brenner, Samuel Cohn, John
Henderson, Neil Murphy, Elizabeth Rutledge, Samantha Sagui, Karen
Smyth, Jane Stevens Crawshaw, Sheila Sweetinburgh.
Mental Health is an accessible introductory textbook aimed
primarily at nursing and health care students who are not in the
mental health field of practice but are seeking to understand
mental health and become rounded practitioners. It will also be
useful as a broad introduction for mental health nursing students.
Through clear explanations, examples and activities, the book will
help you to recognise and support people with mental health issues
whenever they are encountered in your practice. You will learn:
What mental health is and how it interacts with physical health
About different theories and models that are applied to
understanding mental illness How to relate to and communicate with
people experiencing mental health problems How to recognise the
common diagnosable mental health disorders and understand the
treatments and interventions that are applied to them About the
impact that mental health issues can have on people at different
stages of life, from childhood to adulthood and later life How to
apply legal and ethical frameworks and to assess risk when
supporting people with mental health issues. Written by a team of
highly experienced mental health academics and practitioners, this
book will help you to develop the underpinning knowledge and skills
you need and to apply them in your own field of practice.
Pre-publication reviews "Accessible and thorough, and definitely
well pitched for non-mental health clinicians." Senior Lecturer,
Mental Health Nursing "From an adult nursing point of view it's got
everything I would expect it to cover." Adult nursing student "The
book is very readable and accessible, I like the tone of the text
as it is informative, and the activities give you chance to
reflect.... The information is comprehensive without being too
wordy, but academically sound. This book should be on the reading
list for all nursing students and other HCP students. It should
also be on the book shelf in all nursing offices, [social worker]
offices, occupational health etc.." Mental health nursing student
"I would definitely recommend this book to non-specialists. I like
the breadth of areas that the book covers." Senior Lecturer, Mental
Health Nursing Essentials is a series of accessible, introductory
textbooks for students in nursing, health and social care. New and
forthcoming titles in the series: The Care Process Communication
Skills Leadership Learning Disabilities Mental Health Promoting
Health and Wellbeing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Study
Skills
Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his
reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as
the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign
of nine and a half years, he re-imposed the rule of law, made the
crown solvent, decisively crushed heresy, achieved a momentous
victory at the battle of Agincourt (1415), and negotiated a
remarkably favourable settlement for the English over the French in
the Treaty of Troyes (1420). Above all, he restored the reputation
of the English monarchy andunited the English people behind the
crown following decades of upheaval and political turmoil. But who
was the man behind these achievements? What explains his success?
How did he acquire such a glorious reputation? The ground-breaking
essays contained in this volume provide the first concerted
investigation of these questions in over two decades. Contributions
range broadly across the period of Henry's life, including his
early years as Prince of Wales. They consider how Henry raised the
money to fund his military campaigns and how his subjects responded
to these financial exactions; how he secured royal authority in the
localities and cultivated support within the politicalcommunity;
and how he consolidated his rule in France and earned for himself a
reputation as the archetypal late medieval warrior king. Overall,
the contributions provide new insights and a much better
understanding of how Henryachieved this epithet. GWILYM DODD is an
Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of
Nottingham. Contributors: Christopher Allmand, Mark Arvanigian,
Michael Bennett, Anne Curry, Gwilym Dodd, Maureen Jurkowski, Alison
K. McHardy, Neil Murphy, W. Mark Ormrod, Jenny Stratford, Craig
Taylor.
This book provides a systematic analysis of the innovations that
occurred in the display of royal power during John II's four years
in English captivity. Neil Murphy shows how the French king's
competition with Edward III led to a revolution in the presentation
of the royal image, manifesting through developments to the sacral
character of the French monarchy, lavish displays of gift giving,
and the use of courtly display. Showing that the Hundred Years War
was not just fought on the battlefields of France, this book
unravels how the war played out daily in the competition for status
between Edward III and John II.
Fresh examinations of the activities of Henry V, looking at how his
reputation was achieved. Henry V (1413-22) is widely acclaimed as
the most successful late medieval English king. In his short reign
of nine and a half years, he re-imposed the rule of law, made the
crown solvent, decisively crushed heresy, achieved a momentous
victory at the battle of Agincourt (1415), and negotiated a
remarkably favourable settlement for the English over the French in
the Treaty of Troyes (1420). Above all, he restored the reputation
of the English monarchy andunited the English people behind the
crown following decades of upheaval and political turmoil. But who
was the man behind these achievements? What explains his success?
How did he acquire such a glorious reputation? The ground-breaking
essays contained in this volume provide the first concerted
investigation of these questions in over two decades. Contributions
range broadly across the period of Henry's life, including his
early years as Prince of Wales. They consider how Henry raised the
money to fund his military campaigns and how his subjects responded
to these financial exactions; how he secured royal authority in the
localities and cultivated support within the politicalcommunity;
and how he consolidated his rule in France and earned for himself a
reputation as the archetypal late medieval warrior king. Overall,
the contributions provide new insights and a much better
understanding of how Henryachieved this epithet. GWILYM DODD is an
Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of
Nottingham. Contributors: Christopher Allmand, Mark Arvanigian,
Michael Bennett, Anne Curry, Gwilym Dodd, Maureen Jurkowski, Alison
K. McHardy, Neil Murphy, W. Mark Ormrod, Jenny Stratford, Craig
Taylor.
Initially published in 1984, Dermot Healy's stunning first novel,
Fighting with Shadows, returns to print after almost thirty years.
Largely set in the border village of Fanacross, Co. Fermanagh, as
Ireland stumbles clumsily toward modernity, the Allen family
negotiate a bitter and troubled terrain. Fighting with Shadows
offers extraordinary and poetic glimpses of the compelling lives of
ordinary people. The novel's landscape is of borderlands, of
in-between spaces; it tells of violently sundered geographical
borders, of maddening religious differences, of the anguished gaps
between people as they struggle to find each other, and of how the
dead reside among its inhabitants long after they've passed. At
once realist account and nightmarish magic realist fable, Fighting
with Shadows occupies a truly important position in the history of
modern Irish fiction.
Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy is a
comprehensive collection of critical essays, memoirs, poetry, and
other writerly responses devoted to the life and work of the late
Dermot Healy (1947– 2014). Healy was an accomplished poet, short
story writer, novelist, playwright, and editor, and so these essays
and observations address the entire range of his eclectic and
exciting oeuvre. While paying due tribute to the memory of the man
himself, the collection primarily seeks to establish a series of
important critical perspec- tives through which Healy’s writings
can be properly viewed and assessed. Contemporary writers and
poets— including Colm Tóibín, Neil Jordan, Aidan Higgins,
Alannah Hopkin, Kevin Barry, Annie Proulx, Michael Longley, Roddy
Doyle, Tess Gallagher, Timothy O’Grady, Glenn Patterson, Patrick
McCabe, and many others—of- fer creative reflections on Healy’s
work, while literary critics provide a wide-ranging foundation for
future Healy scholarship. In total, over forty contributors from
more than a dozen countries provide insight into one of Ireland’s
most powerful and unique literary voices. This collection is
absolutely crucial for everyone interested in the work of Dermot
Healy and for all devotees of Irish literature.
Neil Murphy's third book embraces the subject of the Irish
'Troubles' during the chaotic period between the Easter Rising in
1916 and the signing of the Treaty in 1921. Lord Keppel, a
psychopathic Captain in the British army needs money to refurbish
his castle in Enniskillen. His American heiress wife will foot the
bill. Sadly for Keppel his pregnant bride, a millionaire's
daughter, drowns as a consequence of a German torpedo attack on the
liner, Moldavia, but not before the child enters the world. She is
left in the care of Mossy McGuire, a passing Irish fisherman who
rescued the infant. This story follows Keppel's search for his
daughter, thwarted by the I.R.A. and friendly locals who are intent
on saving the child from the hands of Keppel and returning her to
her maternal grandparents in America.
A series of psychology based essays written by Neil Murphy C.Q.S.W.
to assist people with issues of depression and help them reach
their own personal understanding.
Literature and Ethics covers a wide gamut of literary periods and
genres, including essays on Victorian literature and modernism, as
well as several studies on narrative, but the central ethos emerges
from considerations of issues of responsibility and
irresponsibility as they find expression in literary study, and in
ethics. Students and academics who are interested in literary
theory, ethics, narrative form, and issues of authorial
responsibility, and how such matters inform the reading of literary
texts, will find that this collection offers a wide array of
approaches and viewpoints by major figures from the relevant
sub-disciplines in literary studies. The collection offers
much-timely critical observation on a variety of contemporary
authors but also provides critically adventurous commentaries on
Victorian literature, and on Indian, African, Irish, and Australian
literature. The volume assembles a collection of essays that would
illustrate the great diversity of methods by which considerations
of responsibility can and do offer insight into a range of literary
texts, and theoretical discourses, while also making a contribution
to the philosophical question of responsibility (and
irresponsibility) in the contemporary world. The collection as a
whole testifies to the human fascination with issues of
responsibility, just as it testifies to the necessity of posing
questions of responsibility as questions of ethics and literature,
the necessity of recognizing, in other words, that "responsibility"
names a concept whose only ground is the history of those fictional
narratives of responsibility and irresponsibility that modern
civilization would do well to continue inventing and reflecting
upon critically. So whether ethical discourses find expression in
theoretical debate--or in and through the sophisticated fictions
that constitute an imaginative culture--what is clear, both from
wider discussions related to the value of literary texts that are
such a central part of contemporary literary studies, and from the
varied and nuanced arguments that are made in this collection, is
that questions of responsibility are central to literature,
philosophy, and the arts, just as they are to the social realities
that spawned them in the first place. Literature and Ethics is an
important book for all literature and literary theory collections.
It has specific resonance for students and teachers who are
interested in the value of literary study, and in questions of
ethics and narrative.
In this outstanding collection of essays, editors Neil Murphy and
Wai-chew Sim seek not so much to demarcate the field of British
Asian fiction, but to offer due acknowledgment of the artistic
merit of the works of selected authors and simultaneously register
their cultural significance. This volume demonstrates in situ the
virtues of commentary that engages in a substantial manner with
formal and aesthetic considerations, even as it implicates the
discourses of alterity that dominate contemporary cultural
criticism. Additionally, the essays delineate the complex subject
positions explored by authors and texts, and focus on the way
writers negotiate the exigencies of their location within and
between different social formations. If it is the case that British
literature can no longer be discussed in monocultural terms because
of the impact of the writers under consideration, it is also the
case that the diverse trans-cultural positions they explore are
often less specified than proclaimed. Addressing difference,
commensurability, and form-related notions of truth-content, these
essays enlarge our understanding of the range of British (and
affiliated) identities, as well as the cultural contexts from which
they arose. Working as academics and critics from Singapore, a
useful vantage point, Murphy and Sim have extended the parameters
of British Asian to include, not just writers from South Asia as is
traditionally the case, but writers whose parents, or who
themselves, have migrated to Britain from other regions of Asia,
for example, Japan, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. This initiative has
made it possible for professors Murphy and Sim to bring together,
first, an interestingly varied group of authors, among them those
who came to prominence in the 1980s Salman Rushdie, Timothy Mo,
Kazuo Ishiguro as well as their younger contemporaries Meera Syal,
Romesh Gunesekera, Monica Ali, Hari Kunzru, Ooi Yang-May; and,
second, a broad and diverse range of novels that span Timothy Mo s
Sour Sweet (1982) and Tariq Ali s A Sultan in Palermo (2005), the
fourth volume in his Islam quintet.
Authors like Annie Proulx, John Banville, Derek Mahon, Dermot
Healy, and Higgins himself, represented by a previously uncollected
essay, offer a variety of critical and creative commentaries, while
scholars such as Keith Hopper, Peter van de Kamp, George O Brien,
and Gerry Dukes contribute exciting new perspectives on all aspects
of Higgins s writing, including his radio plays, his critical work,
and the Harold Pinter film adaptation of Langrishe, Go Down.
Langrishe too is revisited, while convincing cases are made for the
major significance of later novels such as Bornholm Night-Ferry and
Lions of the Grunewald, as well as Higgins s unorthodox trilogy of
autobiographies. This collection confirms the enduring significance
of Aidan Higgins as one of the major writers of our time, and also
offers testament that Higgins s work is being rediscovered by a new
generation of critics and writers.
In 1544, Henry VIII led the largest army then ever raised by an
English monarch to invade France. This book investigates the
consequences of this action by examining the devastating impact of
warfare on the native population, the methods the English used to
impose their rule on the region (from the use of cartography to the
construction of fortifications) and the development of English of
colonial rule in France. As Murphy explores the significance of
this major financial and military commitment by the Tudor monarchy,
he situates the developments within the wider context of English
actions in Ireland and Scotland during the mid-sixteenth century.
Rather than consider the plantations established in the
mid-sixteenth century Ireland as the 'laboratory' for a new form of
empire, this book argues that they should be viewed along with the
Boulogne venture as the English crown's final attempt to establish
colonies through the use of state resources alone.
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