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This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary
career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on
a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States
and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers
are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in
the digital era.
This lavishly illustrated book celebrates the life of Doris and
Anna Zinkeisen, charting the rise of the sisters from a childhood
in Scotland, to their emergence as amongst the most eminent artists
of their day in London, to a quieter yet still highly productive
life during their twilight years in rural Suffolk. During the
golden age from the 1920s through to the 1950s, the Zinkeisen
sisters enjoyed a huge success and won numerous accolades. Their
paintings and design work, including posters, murals and luxury
ocean liners, and costume designs for stage and film, are today
emblematic of that period in British art.
Portable Prose: The Novel and the Everyday examines the novel as a
privileged site for representing the everyday, as well as a
physical object that occupies public and private space. This
collection interrogates the relationships between these differing
aspects of the novel's existence, negotiating the boundaries
between the material world, subjective experience, and strategies
of representation. This collection offers a wide array of
innovative novelistic explorations-with a focus ranging from
nineteenth-century fiction to contemporary literary theory-and
explores the portability of novels as both physical things and
virtual hermeneutic devices. While mimetic qualities of prose
remain an integral consideration for literary interpretation, this
collection argues for more diverse frameworks-ones that see
aesthetic components of the novel in close connection with reading
practices, shared structures of feeling, and the corporeal. In this
capacity, this volume will argue for readings of texts that
consider the capacity for literary culture to move through the
world, but also to make it or re-make it new.
Most specialist mental health care is provided by nurses who use
face to face helping skills with a wide range of people in a
variety of contexts. This book puts therapeutic skills at the heart
of the nurse's role, with one central aim: to equip you with
knowledge to use in your practice, thus improving your ability to
deliver care. This book: * Will enable you to strengthen your core
therapeutic skills and broaden your knowledge to include other
practical therapeutic approaches * Collates in one place
information on a range of therapeutic approaches, from person
centred counselling, motivational interviewing and solution focused
approaches, through to day to day skills of challenging unhelpful
thoughts, de-escalating difficult situations, working with
families, and problem solving * Demonstrates application of theory
to practice through a variety of practical examples * Features
reader activities to facilitate personal growth and learning *
Includes a chapter exploring clinical supervision and how this
makes practice more effective Each chapter is grounded in authentic
clinical experiences and focuses on equipping the reader to develop
confidence in their client facing skills. This text is an essential
purchase for all mental health nurse students as well as qualified
nurses. "Whilst the essential therapeutic component of mental
health nursing is the nurse themselves, it is also essential that
they have knowledge and competencies to offer the client. This
valuable book offers the reader an introduction to a wide range of
approaches that are considered helpful, evidence based and
effective. Modern mental health nursing requires much of its
practitioners; this book will help inform and support that
endeavour." Ian Hulatt, Mental Health Adviser, Royal College of
Nursing, UK "This is a timely book which addresses, head on,
questions about what mental health nurses can do to be effective
with their patients. At last we have a book that mental health
nurses can draw on to understand why and how various therapeutic
approaches are used. The range is from cognitive behavioural
therapy, to psychodynamic approaches to mindfulness, with others in
between. Each chapter is written by an expert and each offers
concrete examples of what it involved in each of the approaches.
These examples are imperative if readers are to understand how to
use interventions in their everyday work. This ground breaking book
will be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the care of
those with mental health problems. A wonderful book." Philip
Burnard, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, Cardiff University, UK
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