Author: Isabella Valancy Crawford
Publisher: London, Ont. : Canadian Poetry Press
ISBN: 9780921243168
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Katie Roiphe
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN: 198212802X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Katie Roiphe, culture writer and author of The Morning After, shares a “beautifully written” (The New York Times Book Review) “astute memoir [that] reverberates with rich prose, crisp pacing, and self-compassion” (Publishers Weekly) and an essential discussion of how strong women experience their power. Told in a series of notebook entries, Roiphe weaves her often fraught personal experiences with divorce, single motherhood, and relationships with insights into the lives and loves of famous writers such as Sylvia Plath and Simone de Beauvoir. She dissects the way she and other ordinary, powerful women have subjugated their own power time and time again, and she probes brilliantly at the tricky, uncomfortable question of why. “Although Ms. Roiphe seems to be exposing her vulnerabilities here, she is actually, once again, demonstrating her unique brand of fearlessness” (The Wall Street Journal). The Power Notebooks is Roiphe’s most vital, thought-provoking, and emotionally intimate work yet.

Author: Jacqueline C. Harmon
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512765325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Joan Masons nursing career had fit perfectly with her personality traits of compassion and caring. But she quickly realizes her misplaced trust in self could not be her own or others saving grace. A humbling sequence of events rip her nursing career from her grasp, placing her future on shaky ground as the life of her patient hangs by a thread, and Joan is accused of possible malpractice with the only witness nowhere to be found. Edward Ross, CEO of Mercy General, had partnered with Rowen Pharmaceuticals in research studies for a new antibiotic with hopes of changing outcomes for patients while padding his own coffers. But unanticipated side effects soon shatter his dreams and bring to surface family secrets that had long been pushed in a corner. Joan is in the right place at the wrong time and finds herself searching for answers, truth, and a new faith built on trust.

Author: Katie Ortlip
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997330014
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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People today are not only living longer, they are also living sicker-- making aging and caring for elderly loved ones more complicated than ever before. Brent provides a comprehensive, straightforward handbook to help family caregivers with sibling and parent-child communication, end-of-life decision making, and guidance for how to help a loved one medically, financially, and emotionally.

Author: Janet Malcolm
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300137710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?" Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master "whose charm was as conspicuous as her fatness" and "thin, plain, tense, sour" Alice B. Toklas, the "worker bee" who ministered to Stein's needs throughout their forty-year expatriate "marriage." As Malcolm pursues the truth of the couple's charmed life in a village in Vichy France, her subject becomes the larger question of biographical truth. "The instability of human knowledge is one of our few certainties," she writes. The portrait of the legendary couple that emerges from this work is unexpectedly charged. The two world wars Stein and Toklas lived through together are paralleled by the private war that went on between them. This war, as Malcolm learned, sometimes flared into bitter combat. Two Lives is also a work of literary criticism. "Even the most hermetic of [Stein's] writings are works of submerged autobiography," Malcolm writes. "The key of 'I' will not unlock the door to their meaning-you need a crowbar for that-but will sometimes admit you to a kind of anteroom of suggestion." Whether unpacking the accessible Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, in which Stein "solves the koan of autobiography," or wrestling with The Making of Americans, a masterwork of "magisterial disorder," Malcolm is stunningly perceptive. Praise for the author: "[Janet Malcolm] is among the most intellectually provocative of authors . . .able to turn epiphanies of perception into explosions of insight."-David Lehman, Boston Globe "Not since Virginia Woolf has anyone thought so trenchantly about the strange art of biography."-Christopher Benfey

Author: MELVILLE HOUSE
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612199682
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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A provocative collection of interviews with the sublimely talented author of The Journalist and the Murderer The legendary journalist, Janet Malcolm, opened her most famous work The Journalist and the Murderer with the line: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” Ever since its publication in 1980, she only increased her reputation as a devastatingly sharp writer, whose eye for observation is matched only by her formal inventiveness and philosophical interrogations of the relationship between journalist and subject. Predictably, as an interview subject herself, she was an intimidating mark. In this collection, interviewers tangle with their own projections and identifications, while she often, gamely, plays along. Full of insights about her writing process, the craft of journalism, and her own analysis of her most famous works, this collection proves that Janet Malcolm is just as elusive and enlightening in conversation as she was on paper.

Author: James Rushing Daniel
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646421728
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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"Increasingly divided by economic inequality, racial injustice, xenophobic violence, and authoritarian governance, writing studies scholars have developed responsive theories and practices to engage students, teachers, administrators, and citizens. The first collection to focalize difference as such, gathering scholars offering theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical resources for understanding, interrogating, negotiating, and writing across difference"--

Author: Diana M. A. Relke
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552380173
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Relke (women's and gender studies, U. of Saskatchewan) divides her book into what she calls three chronological "moments in feminist ecocritical consciousness": poetic, ecological, and ecocritical. Essays included under poetic consciousness are preoccupied with woman's search for subjectivity in a literary universe that can't accommodate women poets of nature, examining, for example, Atwood's Journals of Susanna Moodie. To ecological consciousness, Relke assigns essays examining how Dorothy Livesay, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Daphne Marlatt understand the metaphor, woman = nature, and how they use it to address green concerns. Lastly, essays under ecocritical consciousness focus on the critical act itself and on the masculine construction of Canadian literary history. The book's constant theme, writes Relke, "concerns the struggle by women poets to make the best of a bad idea--namely, patriarchy." Canadian card order number: C99-910815-8. Distribute by Raincoast Distribution Services. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author: D. M. R. Bentley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773512009
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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In this survey and analysis of long poems written about Canada between 1690 and 1900, D.M.R. Bentley establishes literary contexts for a greatly neglected period of Canadian literature. He also provides critical discussions of the poems, addresses larger questions of tradition and intertextuality, and demonstrates the existence of a continuity in Canadian writing from the colonial to the post-colonial period.

Author: Frank M. Tierney
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776628399
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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This work is the result of the fifth Symposium in the University of Ottawa Symposia series which focused on the life and work of Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887). Acclaimed scholars of Canadian Literature joined to speak on Crawford's life, read and listen to her poetry, and critically examine some of her major works. Contributors include Dorothy Livesay, Penny Petrone, Margo Dunn, John Ower, Orest Rudzik, Elizabeth Waterston, Fred Cogswell, Kenneth Hughes, S. R. MacGillivray, Catherine Ross, Louis Dudek, Anne Paolucci, and Clara Thomas.