Author: Rosemary H. Lloyd
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501744593
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Envy, Rosemary Lloyd says, involves what one would like to have but does not; jealousy, what one has but fears losing. Lloyd demonstrates in Closer and Closer Apart how the passion unleashed by jealousy can illuminate such concepts as self and other, gender and society. Jealousy, in her view, exerts a powerful attraction in literature, partly because it distorts the individual's perceptions of the other in highly productive ways, and partly because it serves as paradigms for reading and for storytelling. In this accessible and elegantly crafted book, Lloyd explores sexual jealousy more as a literary devise than as a literary theme. She draws her examples from novels, plays, and poetry spanning many years and from many countries, mainly nineteenth- and twentieth-century France and England but also Russia, Poland, Germany, Italy, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Among the writers she treats are Proust, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Charlotte Brontë, Trollope, Barthes, and Baudelaire. After discussing various portraits of the jealous lover, Lloyd asks to what extent the literary experience of jealousy has been colored by conventional images of male and female roles. She also examines the ways in which the jealous lover deals with the "other"—whether beloved or rival. Finally, she looks at jealousy as a desire for control, represented through images of incorporation and possession.
Author: Eugene Stickland
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Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Author: hJohn Monks
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ISBN: 9781739955700
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Margaret Waldmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781929733736
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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"Closer Apart, Margaret Waldmann's first novel is about the mysterious power of a first love and love at first sight. The story unfolds around the beautiful and gifted Ann Anderson, raised in a small Indiana town by a loving father and a prudish and overly strict mother. After the family moves to Cleveland, Ohio, Ann is introduced to a charming 16-year-old Stephen Wakefield. She and Stephen fall madly in love, an adolescent love-profound, powerful, and enduring for two and a half years. Then the twists and turns of life interfere. The young lovers break up and go their separate ways-Ann to study piano at the Juilliard Graduate School in New York City, Stephen to Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. Pearl Harbor! World War II! Stephen is drafted into the Army and sent to Yale for intelligence training. Ann becomes a world-famous performing classical pianist in a pop-culture world. She meets Donald Denison, a war hero, whom she marries. Both confess it is love at first sight. Her life in music, her romances, her friends and family all tell a story of relationships. Ann returns to Cleveland to fulfill an engagement and there encounters her first love, Stephen, with whom she reconnects. It is the beginning of an affair, sweet, tender, passionate, beautiful, and touching in their golden years."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: John Bayley
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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A hilarious comedy of errors and a delightful love story by England's most improbable sex symbol. Little did retired professor John Bayley realize when he lost Iris Murdoch, his beloved wife of forty-four years, that life would never be the same again. First came thousands of sympathy notes from lovers of Murdoch's novels and fans of Bayley's own poignant memoir, Elegy for Iris. But more alarming were the hundreds of calls from seemingly well-meaning women, many of whom rang Bayley's doorbell in Oxford, bearing cakes, casserole dishes, and delivering pep talks designed to cheer up the widower of their dreams. Here, in Widower's House: A Study in Bereavement or How Margot and Mella Forced Me to Flee My Home, Bayley tells the painful, inspirational, and ultimately uplifting story of how he had to grapple with his fate as a man by beginning life anew in his mid-seventies. Like millions of other widows and widowers, Bayley, as he relates it, found himself emotionally unprepared for the responsibilities and burdens that confront people who suddenly find themselves alone. He hadn't realized how differently you are treated when you are not part of a couple, and how you must learn to respond to friends, family members, and total strangers in completely different ways. With the reassuring, compassionate voice of Iris still a mournful obbligato in the background, Bayley describes the pitfalls a widower must face as he ventures out into the newly virgin world beyond his front door. Finding comfort in recording the day-to-day calamities that marked his reentry into the real world, Bayley uses surprising humor—reflected here in the vivid depictions of his new suitors, Margot and Mella—to get him through his darkest days. Melodic, irrepressible, and comically comforting, Widower's House, with its heartwarming and surprisingly romantic ending, will reveal yet a new side of the man who has become England's most unlikely symbol of masculine virility.
Author: Shawn M. Tomlinson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359180175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Languages : en
Pages : 810
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Author: Neil J. Salkind
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412971020
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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The bestselling text Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics is the basis for this completely adapted Excel version. Author Neil J. Salkind presents an often intimidating and difficult subject in a way that is informative, personable, and clear. Researchers and students who find themselves uncomfortable with the analysis portion of their work will appreciate this book’s unhurried pace and thorough, friendly presentation. Salkind begins the Excel version with a complete introduction to the software, and shows the students how to install the Excel Analysis ToolPak option (free) to earn access to a host of new and very useful analytical techniques. He then walks students through various statistical procedures, beginning with correlations and graphical representation of data and ending with inferential techniques and analysis of variance. Pedagogical features include sidebars offering additional technical information about the topic and set-off points that reinforce major themes. Finally, questions to chapter exercises, a complete glossary, and extensive Excel functionality are located at the back of the book.
Author: USA Patent Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 2284
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Author: Zeynep Direk
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415235846
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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