Author: Kenzaburo Oe
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: teach, madness, outgrow, prize, stock, sky, monster, tears, aghwee, himself, four, short, novels, day, wipe
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1994-10-13
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 080215185X
ISBN-13: 9780802151858

These four novels display Oe’s passionate and original vision. Oe was ten when American jeeps first drove into the mountain village where he lived, and his literary work reveals the tension and ambiguity forged by the collapse of values of his childhood on the one hand and the confrontation with American writers on the other. The earliest of his novels included here, Prize Stock, reveals the strange relationship between a Japanese boy and a captured black American pilot in a Japanese village. Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness tells of the close relationship between an outlandishly fat father a

Author: Sol Wachtler
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: madness
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-07-28
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0759245193
ISBN-13: 9780759245198

Driving down the Long Island Expressway in November of 1992, Sol Wachtler was New York’s Chief Judge and heir apparent to the New York Governorship. Suddenly, three van loads of FBI agents swerved in front of him -- bringing his car and his legal career to a halt. Wachtlers subsequent arrest, conviction and incarceration for harassing his longtime lover precipitated a media feeding frenzy, revealing to the world his struggles with romantic obsession, manic-depression and drug abuse. With unflinching honesty, Wachtler draws upon his unique experience of living life on both sides of

Author: B Benjamin
Publisher: Chipmunkapublishing
Keywords: midnight, madness
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006-05-05
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 1905610491
ISBN-13: 9781905610495

by Bianca Benjamin ISBN 13: 978-1-905610-49-5 Published: 2006 Pages: 100 Description This is the story of an actual encounter with deep, dark and largely unexplained forces. Not a nice comfortable story with a happy ending but rather a raw, emotional journey littered with the sort of trials and challenges most of us will be fortunate enough never to have to face. Bianca is a schizophrenic, she has spent much of her life in hospital, battling her illness. This is her unique story. About the Author Bianca Benjamin’s first mental breakdown in her early fifties, her subs

Author: Maurice Blanchot
Publisher: Station Hill Press
Keywords: day, madness
Number of Pages: 31
Published: 1981-01-06
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0930794362
ISBN-13: 9780930794361

Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is ’a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour, the madness of today, of the day today, which leads to the madness that comes from the day, is born of it, as well as the madness of the day itself, itself mad..La folie du jour is a story of madness, of that madness that consists in seeing the light, vision or visibility, to see beyond what is visible, is not merely ’to have a vision’ in the usual sense of the word, but to see-beyond-sight, to see-sight-beyond

Author: Jamie Rae
Publisher: Lulu.com
Keywords: madness, descent
Number of Pages: 49
Published: 2005-12-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 141166387X
ISBN-13: 9781411663879

A collection of poems written as a metaphor, almost, for the authors steady descent into madness. Following his hatred of others needlessly, his hatred of everything and his complete insanity that almost entirely consumed him. Composed of 40+ poems, we see the author reflect on different moods and ideals throughout, going from high to low in the flick of a page. With both variety in themes, tones and ideals throughout the book, we see the Authors mood swinging rapidly all across the board, as does his love of someone on one page, turn to hatred of him/her on another. The actual ’author&#

Author: J.K. Wing
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: madness, reasoning
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2009-10-31
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1412810574
ISBN-13: 9781412810579

The exact definition of "madness" remains elusive. There are difficulties in distinguishing the criminal from the mad or, more euphemistically, the mentally ill. Controversy has centered on the frightening potential possessed by the state to deprive of his rights the individual officially classified as mad. In this book, Wing, a psychiatrist of international repute, argues for a limited medical definition of mental illness, although he explains how even a doctor’s professional judgment may often be influenced by social pressures. He compares concepts of madness prevalent in diff

Author: Richard P. Bentall
Publisher: Penguin Global
Keywords: explained, madness
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2005-12-28
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0140275401
ISBN-13: 9780140275407

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