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Memoirs of a midget
Miss M., a pretty and diminutive young woman with a passion for shells, fossils, flints, butterflies and stuffed animals, struggles to deal with her isolation from the rest of society due to her extraordinarily small size. When her father dies, she must make her own way in a world that treats her as an entertaining curiosity, a momentary diversion from the game of making ones way up the social ladder. An elegiac, misanthropic, sometimes perverse study of isolation, de la Mare's prize-winning classic seduces by its gentle charm and elegant prose.
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Fish in Exile
A couple loses their child in this poetic and devastating novel in which grief reaches \"enthralling and mysterious pleasures\" (Carol Maso). A couple named Catholic and Ethos struggle with the loss of their child. How? With fishtanks and jellyfish burials, Persephone's pomegranate seeds, and affairs with the neighbors. Fish in Exile spins unimaginable loss through classical and magical tumblers, distorting our view so that we can see the contours of a parent's grief all the more clearly. \"The result is a novel that forges a new vocabulary for the routine of grief, as well as the process of healing\" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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Where are you now?
\"Told in simple but powerful prose, and illustrated by the author in a wash of brilliant watercolor, Tyler Clark Burke's Where Are You Now? is a beautiful small book about change, death and transformation. As the tenth anniversary of her mother's death approached, Tyler Clark Burke set about creating a picture book to share her mother's memory--and more poignantly, her death--with her two young children. The result is a picture book that communicates a powerful underlying idea--that death catalyzes powerful growth, contemplation, and regeneration in its wake.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Something old, something blue: bereavement and institutional ageism in The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
The dystopian fiction genre within Western media has historically highlighted the flaws associated with societal attempts to achieve an unattainable ideal – or utopia. Through storytelling, these texts highlight the present issues in society, and among them, readers find deeply concerning messages about dehumanisation and oppression. The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins is uniquely placed within this larger genre due to the exceptional use of negative space; that is, the text communicates multiple meanings through what Collins includes and does not include. The following article engages in a deep reading of The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil through textual analysis to interpret and describe the message Collins communicates highlighting institutional ageism and bereavement. Consideration for the use of both negative and positive space within narrative construction reveals a story that encourages societal and social change to better care for the mentally ill, geriatric population.
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Fractured light : a novel
After her parents' death, Llona decides she wants nothing to do with the gift she inherited of manipulating light and transferring its calming energy to others.
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Caring for Suicide Loss Survivors: How Fiction May Help to Research, Teach, and Cope with Suicide-Related Bereavement
This paper addresses the hard-to-manage, work-related phenomenon of suicide. A qualitative, postventive, and protective approach explores how business researchers and teachers may care, inquire, and talk about suicide. The use of fiction and personal experience illustrates a potential affective approach to cope with suicide-related bereavement. Suicide raises ontological, epistemological, and existential questions that defy management as control (typical of prevention strategies), so this paper focuses on postvention, broadening the scope of organizational suicidology to include suicide loss survivors, while suggesting future paths for management-related teaching and research.
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The beginner's goodbye
\"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothy's unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the family's vanity-publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye. A beautiful, subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with Anne Tyler's humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles\"-- Provided by publisher.
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'Have You Ever Waited for Someone?': On Yehudit Hendel's Unpublished Novella 'Kartisim le-Sammy Davis'
The article unveils an unpublished novella by Israeli author Yehudit Hendel (1921–2014), \"Kartisim le-Sammy Davis\" (Tickets to Sammy Davis), which was discovered as part of her literary estate. This shelved novella was written during the early 1970s—following the publication of her second novel Ha-ḥaẓer shel momo ha-gedolah (The Courtyard of Momo the Great, 1969), and before the death of her husband, painter Zvi Meirovich, in 1974, which led to her famous 1984 book Ha-koaḥ ha-'aḥer (The Other Power). Strongly related to Hendel's poetics of melancholia and to her ongoing fascination with grief and bereavement in Israeli culture, \"Kartisim le-Sammy Davis\" addresses the question of the \"endless waiting\" for the missing loved one and is revealed as an important text in Hendel's oeuvre. Following Roland Barthes's discussion of the state of waiting for the loved object (which he views as a \"minor mourning\"), this article seeks to portray the (endless) waiting of the heroine of the novella as a melancholic one, which expresses a \"major mourning.\" It also traces and examines the dominance of the loved one's voice, which becomes even more present after his death, turning him into a \"living\" specter. As suggested here, Hendel's shelved novella radically explores the melancholic state: not only as the only state possible for her protagonists (as also evidenced in her complete body of work), but also as a violent, consuming state in itself, that depletes both the anticipated (lost) object and the anticipating (living) subject.
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Fairy treasure
Ruby, a tiny fairy-girl, suddenly appears in the library of the old house here Connie is staying. Ruby is a book fairy who has been banished from fairyland and needs help to find a lost ruby ring.
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Emotions in History – Lost and Found
Coming to terms with emotions and how they influence human behaviour, seems to be of the utmost importance to societies that are obsessed with everything “neuro.” On the other hand, emotions have become an object of constant individual and social manipulation since “emotional intelligence” emerged as a buzzword of our times. Reflecting on this burgeoning interest in human emotions makes one think of how this interest developed and what fuelled it. From a historian’s point of view, it can be traced back to classical antiquity. But it has undergone shifts and changes which can in turn shed light on social concepts of the self and its relation to other human beings (and nature). The volume focuses on the historicity of emotions and explores the processes that brought them to the fore of public interest and debate.
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