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The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

Author : Will Self
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802193390
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Sweet Smell of Psychosis written by Will Self and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Self—a writer hailed by Time as “brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers”—at the top of his form. It looks like it’s going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so much enfolded as trapped in the bosom of the most venal media clique in London, Richard is losing it on all fronts: he’s losing his heart to Ursula Bentley, a nubile and vacuous magazine columnist; he’s in danger of losing his job at the pretentious listings magazine Rendezvous; he’s losing his mind courtesy of Colombia’s chief illegal export; and, worst of all, he’s losing his soul . . . to the king-of-all-media and sinister purveyor of opportunities—sexual, chemical, and professional—known only as Bell. Murky, paranoid, and hilarious, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis is Will Self at his best.

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

Author : Will Self
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788167362
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book The Sweet Smell of Psychosis written by Will Self and published by . This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brief and humorous satire, a man trapped in the bosom of the most venal media clique in London is losing his heart to a magazine columnist, about to lose his job at a magazine, losing his mind to cocaine, and losing his soul to a newspaper columnist, the kingpin of media scandal.

The Sweet Smell of Honeysuckle

Author : Alice Heaver
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595325689
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Sweet Smell of Honeysuckle written by Alice Heaver and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sage, a nurse at a psychiatric hospital, is concerned when a fellow nurse is discharged as a patient soon after her mental breakdown, then learns of her marriage to a former patient. Ellen, in her psychotic mind, is extremely jealous of Sage and when Sage falls in love with a co-worker, Bob, difficult times lay in store. Is this relationship meant to be, or does Ellen have evil plans for them?

Understanding Will Self

Author : M. Hunter Hayes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036750
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Will Self written by M. Hunter Hayes and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Will Self introduces readers to the satire and expressive ingenuity of a British writer who has garnered an array of awards since the 1991 publication of his first short story collection, The Quantity Theory of Sanity. In this guide to the well-received but largely unstudied writer, M. Hunter Hayes examines the key themes, narrative strategies, and cultural commentaries that characterize Self's work. Through close textual analyses, Hayes guides readers through the alternative universe of Self's writing and maps the interplay between his forays into journalism and fiction. Marked by their combination of seemingly improbable events and quotidian details, Self's novels, novellas, and short stories examine contemporary English life through a mode of writing that he has aptly termed dirty magical realism. Hayes shows how recurring characters have evolved through successive works and in relation with their environments.

The Psychosis and Mental Health Recovery Workbook

Author : Jennifer Gerlach
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1839977337
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Psychosis and Mental Health Recovery Workbook written by Jennifer Gerlach and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can I use my voice to reduce the other voices I hear? Who should I tell about my experiences with psychosis? What steps should I take after a mental health crisis? Experiencing and recovering from psychosis can be isolating, especially if friends and peers can't relate to what you are going through. With testimony from the author's lived experience and using a range of practical therapeutic exercises that draw on ACT, DBT and Recovery-Oriented CBT, this workbook will support and inspire you throughout your recovery, and help you be the best possible advocate for yourself. With practical guidance on everything from coping with paranoia to dealing with stigma, as well as mindfulness strategies and advice on returning to work or school - this guide is with you every step of the way.

Will Self and Contemporary British Society

Author : G. Matthews
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137486562
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Will Self and Contemporary British Society written by G. Matthews and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating and comprehensive study of Will Self's work spans his entire career and offers insightful readings of all his fictional and non-fictional work up to and including his Booker prize nominated novel Umbrella.

The grotesque in contemporary British fiction

Author : Robert Duggan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526112043
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The grotesque in contemporary British fiction written by Robert Duggan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grotesque in contemporary British fiction reveals the extent to which the grotesque endures as a dominant artistic mode in British fiction and presents a new way of understanding six authors who have been at the forefront of British literature over the past four decades. Starting with a sophisticated exploration of the historical development of the grotesque in literature, the book outlines the aesthetic trajectories of Angela Carter, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Iain Banks, Will Self and Toby Litt and offers detailed critical readings of key works of modern fiction including The Bloody Chamber (1979), Money (1984), The Child in Time (1987), The Wasp Factory (1984), Great Apes (1997) and Ghost Story (2004). The book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary writing and provides an illuminating picture of often controversial aspects of recent fiction.

Vice Slang

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134194846
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Vice Slang written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol, providing you with 3,000 words to establish yourself firmly in the world of corruption and wickedness. All words are illustrated by a reference from a variety of sources to prove their existence in alleys and dives throughout the English speaking world. This entertaining book will give you hours of reading pleasure.

Shyness

Author : Christopher Lane
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300150288
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Shyness written by Christopher Lane and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the effects of expanding the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)'s fourth edition on the psychiatric community, pharmaceutical companies, and the nation.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century

Author : Sorrel Kerbel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135456070
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century by : Sorrel Kerbel

Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century written by Sorrel Kerbel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century is both a comprehensive reference resource and a springboard for further study. This volume: examines canonical Jewish writers, less well-known authors of Yiddish and Hebrew, and emerging Israeli writers includes entries on figures as diverse as Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, Eugene Ionesco, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, and Woody Allen contains introductory essays on Jewish-American writing, Holocaust literature and memoirs, Yiddish writing, and Anglo-Jewish literature provides a chronology of twentieth-century Jewish writers. Compiled by expert contributors, this book contains over 330 entries on individual authors, each consisting of a biography, a list of selected publications, a scholarly essay on their work and suggestions for further reading.

Novelists in the New Millennium

Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309079
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Novelists in the New Millennium by : Vanessa Guignery

Download or read book Novelists in the New Millennium written by Vanessa Guignery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of interviews with leading writers such as Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Arundhati Roy and Will Self. Through these interviews the book explores and introduces a range of key themes in contemporary literature, raising questions about genre, history, postmodernism, celebrity culture and form.

Writers Talk

Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441155171
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Writers Talk written by Philip Tew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers Talk includes interviews with Kate Atkinson, Pat Barker, Jonathan Coe, Jim Crace, Toby Litt, Graham Swift, Matt Thorne, David Mitchell, AlanWarner, and Will Self. "Is it a good time to be a writer in the time of The Da Vinci Code? It's not necessarily good time to be a literary writer."-Kate Atkinson "The best novels allow us to rehearse the world ahead of us, to play out the battle before we fight it, to experience disaster before we encounter it, to practice grief before it flattens us. Narrative is useful. It confers advantages on us as a species." -Jim Crace Why do writers write? How do they react to criticism of their work? What inspires them and how do go about working? Does fiction have any political, ethical or spiritual significance? Can we learn more about a book from its author? This collection of interviews with contemporary British novelists offers a fascinating insight into bestselling authors' views on fiction today; their influences and themes; readers and critics; why they write and their writing process; and provides a snapshot of the reality of living as a writer.

The Contemporary British Novel

Author : Philip Tew
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826493203
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Contemporary British Novel written by Philip Tew and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-06-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of this guide for students studying contemporary British writing - written by one of the key academics in the field of modern fiction studies.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317372514
Total Pages : 21043 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 21043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.

1990s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Nick Hubble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474242421
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book 1990s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction written by Nick Hubble and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1990s shape contemporary British Fiction? From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the turn of the millennium, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. Against the changing international scene, this volume uses events abroad and in Britain to examine and explain the changes taking place in British fiction, including: the celebration of national identities, fuelled by the move toward political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales; the literary optimism in urban ethnic fictions written by a new generation of authors, born and raised in Britain; the popularity of neo-Victorian fiction. Critical surveys are balanced by in-depth readings of work by the authors who defined the decade, including A.S. Byatt, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self, Caryl Phillips and Irvine Welsh: an approach that illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119653061
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature written by Richard Bradford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English

Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351765205
Total Pages : 5135 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English written by Tom Dalzell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 5135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.