The Psychiatrist and Other Stories

The Psychiatrist and Other Stories PDF Author: Machado De Assis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520327039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

The Psychiatrist and Other Stories

The Psychiatrist and Other Stories PDF Author: Machado De Assis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520327039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

The Devil's Church and Other Stories

The Devil's Church and Other Stories PDF Author: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292786336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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The modem Brazilian short story begins with the mature work of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), acclaimed almost unanimously as Brazil's greatest writer. Collectively, these nineteen stories are representative of Machado's unique style and world view, and this translation doubles the number of his stories previously available in English. The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism. If he had continued to produce the moralistic love stories and parlor intrigues of his earlier fiction, Machado's legacy would have been an entertaining but inconsequent body of work. However, by 1880 he had begun a devastating satirical assault on society through his fiction. In spite of his ruthlessness, Machado does at times reveal an ironic sympathy for his characters. He is not indifferent to human conflict but uses humor and irony to stress the absurdity of these conflicts, acted out against the backdrop of an indifferent universe. Such a spectacle creates a sense of helplessness that can only inspire wistful amusement. In his technical mastery of the short story. Machado was decades ahead of his contemporaries and can still be considered more modern than most of the modernists themselves. That his stories elicit such strong and diverse reactions today is a tribute to their richness, complexity, and significance.

Flight From the Ages And Other Stories

Flight From the Ages And Other Stories PDF Author: Derek Künsken
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1786187299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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From the clouds of Venus to the origins of the time gates, this collection of novellas and short fiction visits many favourite worlds of the Quantum Evolution universe, as well as some new to the series. With two 20,000 plus novellas and four long short stories, this collection is a stunning showcase of talent. Collecting: “Persephone Descending”, “Schools of Clay”, “Beneath Sunlit Shallows”, “Flight From the Ages”, Pollen From a Future Harvest and Tool Use By Humans of Danzhai County, this is a must for all fans of forward-thinking science fiction.

Psychology and Other Stories

Psychology and Other Stories PDF Author: C. P. Boyko
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 192684551X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE “C.P. Boyko's second offering is brilliantly bold. Playful and dire and scholarly all at once, Psychology may well be the most audaciously original collection of Canadian fiction, ever. Mr. Mustard alone is worth the price of admission.”—Bill Gaston, author of Mount Appetite “Very revealing.”—Hubert T. Ross, PhD, PsyD, DPsy Psychologists are people we admire and resent. At best, they’re compassionate detectives of the human soul, healers and diagnosticians, assessing the internal machinations that structure our lives and behavior. At worst, however, they’re smug, hyper-educated, bombastic, yappy, socially deaf, thrice-divorced and twice-separated spouse-swapping cat-torturing perverts. Plus, they’re all in this book. And so are their patients. C.P. Boyko’s Psychology and Other Stories is replete with analysts, attorneys, criminals, Freudians, wardens, and self-help gurus. From Dr. Pringle’s treatment-resisting young patient in “Reaction-Formation” to the philandering forensic psychiatrist of “The Blood-Brain Barrier,” Psychology is a droll dissection of industry archetypes—as well as a brilliant study of mental illness, mental health, and the people who try to tell them apart.

Helen Breaks Bones and Other Stories

Helen Breaks Bones and Other Stories PDF Author: Robert Dennison
Publisher: GeneralStore PublishingHouse
ISBN: 9781894263559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections

Chicorel Index to Short Stories in Anthologies and Collections PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Substitutions & Other Stories

Substitutions & Other Stories PDF Author: Donald Gardner Stacy
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 110505621X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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These stories reflect the author's preoccupations with the trials and conflicts of early married life, and the need for individuals to make their mark in the world, if only to carve a few words onto the surface of a stone.

Blue-beard's Work-shop & Other Stories

Blue-beard's Work-shop & Other Stories PDF Author: Pierre Furlan
Publisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864735546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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"Bluebeard's workshop is a cycle of seductive and provocative stories about the games people play and the tales they tell. Why does the old lady across the street dangle desperate messages from her window? What is the secret to writing a worldwide bestseller? Can a day at the beach at Paekakariki, the sight of Wellington harbour at dusk, or a new pair of shoes in Dunedin, change your perspective on life? With quirky humour and extraordinary insights, Pierre Furlan explores universal human frailty"--Back cover.

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry

Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry PDF Author: Robert Boland
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 1975175743
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 13588

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The gold standard reference for all those who work with people with mental illness, Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, edited by Drs. Robert Boland and Marcia L. Verduin, has consistently kept pace with the rapid growth of research and knowledge in neural science, as well as biological and psychological science. This two-volume eleventh edition offers the expertise of more than 600 renowned contributors who cover the full range of psychiatry and mental health, including neural science, genetics, neuropsychiatry, psychopharmacology, and other key areas.

Machado De Assis's Philosopher or Dog?

Machado De Assis's Philosopher or Dog? PDF Author: Surianida Silva
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351559575
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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The great Brazilian writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) published five of his nine novels as feuilletons in daily newspapers or fortnightly women's magazines. How were the structure and themes of those novels entangled with this serial-publication form? In da Silva's important new study, textual scholarship, critical theory and the history of the book are combined in order to trace this relationship. The most important case study is an extended consideration of Philosopher or Dog? (1891), the novel after which he abandoned the feuilleton. Through a comparison of the serial and book versions of Philosopher or Dog? and a thorough study of the periodical in which it appeared, the international women's magazine The Season , da Silva analyses the changes which the genre novel was undergoing at the end of the nineteenth century: the decline of the serial, and the standardisation of female press. Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva is Tutor of Portuguese at the University of Birmingham and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.