Beyond Nostalgia
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Beyond Nostalgia
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Author : Ruth E. Ray
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2000
Beyond Nostalgia written by Ruth E. Ray and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Education categories.
For three years, Ruth E. Ray visited and participated in eight writing groups at six senior centers in inner-city and suburban Detroit, looking for ways in which the elderly fashion their memories through personal narrative. Her innovative book involves the reader in the construction of life stories as a richly rewarding and highly social process that often reveals the types of relationships that dominate the lives of group members, the majority of whom are women. Because Ray wrote and responded herself and shares her anxiety and triumph in presenting her writing to women old enough to be her mother, some of a different race and class, Beyond Nostalgia is an excellent primer for professionals working with diverse groups in a variety of settings. It is also an important contribution to the emerging field of feminist gerontology. Ray's book demonstrates its own thesis that the presentation and negotiation of life stories in writing groups initiates change and personal growth among older people. Drawing on personal observations, the give-and-take of meeting conversations, lengthy interviews, and the life stories themselves, Ray tells a story of adult development through personal narrative. She recreates the group process through which age peers begin to articulate what life means, both individually and collectively. The writing groups of older adults that Ray studied challenged their members to consider not just cultural influences, but generational effects on the evolving content and structure of their life stories. Age, Ray argues, has been largely ignored by feminists and she makes a strong case for the need to learn how women make meaning of their lives across the life span. As an important document and analysis of that process, Beyond Nostalgia should appeal to academics and practitioners in women's studies, composition studies, gerontology, developmental psyschology, sociology, social work, and linguistics, and to anyone who works with older people.
Beyond Nostalgia
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Author : Tom Winton
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2011-12-14
Beyond Nostalgia written by Tom Winton and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-14 with Fiction categories.
Born with blue in his collar instead of his veins, best-selling author Dean Cassidy chronicles his soul-scarring rise from New York's darkest alleys to a place high atop the literary world. As difficult and unlikely as such a climb is, there's yet another force working against Dean. He's forever haunted by treasured memories of his long-lost teenage soul-mate. Theresa! Theresa! Theresa! She just won't go away! Despite all Dean's hang-ups and mental baggage, he eventually does marry another woman. And for twenty years his wife, Maddy Frances, remains so giving (and forgiving) she deserves to be canonized a living saint. Even after she finds Dean unconscious at a botched suicide attempt--a time-faded photograph of Theresa clenched in his hands—her love never wavers. But is Maddy's loyalty enough to keep them together? Or will a force far stronger than fate alone change everything? (Be sure to check out Tom Winton's newest novel, The Last American Martyr.)
Reinventing Ourselves As Teachers
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Author : Claudia Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-10-04
Reinventing Ourselves As Teachers written by Claudia Mitchell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-04 with Education categories.
Designed for use by teachers and teacher educators, this text should help both novice and experienced teachers reinterpret their working lives. The reader is led on a path of personal exploration that goes beyond standard approaches and leads from the personal to the critical. Illustrative material is drawn from all levels, from kindergarten to high school, to illuminate issues and questions fundamental to teachers' lives. Film and literary narratives supply further case studies and contribute to the fusion of critical reflection and everyday realities that typically inform teachers' experiences of work.
Beyond Nostalgia
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Author : Tom Winton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Beyond Nostalgia written by Tom Winton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Authors categories.
Beyond Nostalgia is a poignant story about growing up, making choices, betrayal, forgiveness and moving on. Cassidy and Theresa find inspiration, joy and acceptance together in their world of dysfunctional families and economic hardships. But one night Cassidy, in a drunken stupor, makes a terrible choice that costs him his relationship with Theresa. Twenty-five years later, with the encouragement of his devoted wife, Cassidy focuses his sadness and angst into writing a book--a book that will eventually lead him to another crossroad in his life and redemption from his suffering.
The Aesthetics Of The Beyond
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Author : Jianguo Chen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Aesthetics Of The Beyond written by Jianguo Chen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is about an alternative mode of reading, thinking, and representing the intricacies of human experience in Chinase literature of the late twentieth century, which the author calls the aesthetics of the "beyond." It investigates how contemporary Chinese writers, by means of dynamic interface of literary practice and cultural philosophical considerations, engage the reader in critical reflection on and aesthetic appreciation of the complexity of human conditions. By studying the "beyond" in its various manifestations: the semiotics of human embodiment, the discourse of the phantasm, the politics of nostalgia with regard to "origin" and "center," and the metaphysics of death in the writings of some major contemporary Chinese writers, the book explores the ways in which the "beyond" is constructed as a new paradigm of critical thinking in literary, aesthetic, and philophical terms, in which its discursive strategies, structural features, and aesthetic possibilities are presented, and in which varied literary tropes are used in an attempt to unravel human experience in all its aspects. Jianguo Chen is a Professor of Chinese literature at the University of Delaware.
Beyond Nostalgia
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Author : Tom Winton
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2011-02-12
Beyond Nostalgia written by Tom Winton and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-12 with Fiction categories.
BEYOND NOSTALGIABorn with blue in his collar instead of his veins, best-selling author Dean Cassidy chronicles his soul-scarring rise from New York's darkest alleys to a place high atop the literary world. As difficult and unlikely as such a climb is, there's yet another force working against Dean. He's forever haunted by treasured memories of his long-lost teenage soul-mate. Theresa! Theresa! Theresa! She just won't go away! Despite all Dean's hang-ups and mental baggage, he eventually does marry another woman. And for twenty years his wife, Maddy Frances, remains so giving (and forgiving) she deserves to be canonized a living saint. Even after she finds Dean unconscious at a botched suicide attempt--a time-faded photograph of Theresa clenched in his hands-her love never wavers. But is Maddy's loyalty enough to keep them together? Or will a force far stronger than fate alone change everything? MORE PRAISE FOR TOM WINTON'S 'BEYOND NOSTALGIA'"I have no doubt that it will be huge once it gets the attention of the right people, and be compulsory reading in schools one day. For me it was on par with Harper Lee, JD Salinger or John Steinbeck as American social commentary..." - Mark Williams International"It's very difficult to write what is called a literary novel without coming across as wordy or plain rambling. I find Faulkner and Joyce and Lawrence, among others, all too fond of the sound of their own words and unable to 'get on with it'. You've done that brilliantly." - Nicholas Boving"I love it when I find a book so touching like yours. The story itself is the force of it all, you capture human emotions going against real life obstacles. You've done a wonderful job and it took me a while to find the words fit for a comment. Even so, I find them useless, all I can say it's been a beautifully haunting read." - Julia Siboney"Beyond Nostalgia is a story told with such tenderness and depth that it will break your heart. It reaches out and grabs the hopeless romantic in all of us." - Isabel Lopez"You write with such a unique voice, it's like I'm the person narrating your story, and I already feel what's happening, happened, and will happen even though I don't know what is, did, and will. That is remarkable." - Kevin Wong"Oh Thomas, I absolutely love your story. The place, the pacing, the sweet youth of Theresa and Dean, you have captured it all. This is about more than love it is about intimacy, opening your heart and soul." - K.C. HartYou might also want to check out Tom Winton's newest release as well, 'The Last American Martyr'.
Beyond The Synagogue
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Author : Rachel B. Gross
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2022
Beyond The Synagogue written by Rachel B. Gross and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Homesickness categories.
Nostalgia
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Author : Clay Routledge
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Nostalgia written by Clay Routledge and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with Psychology categories.
Nostalgia is a topic that most lay people are familiar with, but, until recently, few social scientists understood. Once viewed as a disease, nostalgia is now considered to be an important psychological resource. It involves revisiting personally cherished memories that involve close others. When people engage in nostalgia, they experience a boost in positive psychological states such as positive mood, feelings of social connectedness, self-esteem, self-continuity, and perceptions of meaning in life. Since nostalgia promotes these positive states, when people experience negative states (such as loneliness or meaninglessness), they use nostalgia to regulate distress. This book explains in detail what nostalgia is, how views of it have changed over time, and how it has been studied by social scientists. It explores issues like how common nostalgia is and whether people differ in their tendency to be nostalgic. It looks at the triggers and inspiration for nostalgia, and the emotional states that are associated with it. Finally, the psychological, social, and behavioral effects of engaging in nostalgia are discussed. This volume provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the social scientific research into the complex and intriguing phenomenon of nostalgia. It will be of interest to a range of students and researchers in psychology and beyond, and its accessible writing style and engaging anecdotes will also be appreciated by a wider, non-academic audience.
Transcending The Nostalgic
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Author : George Jaramillo
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2021-10-15
Transcending The Nostalgic written by George Jaramillo and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-15 with History categories.
Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of their industrial past. Whether in the form of abandoned physical structures, displaced populations, or ecological impacts, they persist in memory and lived experience across the developed world. This collection explores the affective and “more-than-representational” dimensions of post-industrial landscapes, including narratives, practices, social formations, and other phenomena. Focusing on case studies from across Europe, it examines both the objective and the subjective aspects of societies that, increasingly, produce fewer things and employ fewer workers.
Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia
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Author : Elisabeth Wesseling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-11
Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia written by Elisabeth Wesseling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
While Romantic-era concepts of childhood nostalgia have been understood as the desire to retrieve the ephemeral mindset of the child, this collection proposes that the emergence of digital media has altered this reflective gesture towards the past. No longer is childhood nostalgia reliant on individual memory. Rather, it is associated through contemporary convergence culture with the commodities of one's youth as they are recycled from one media platform to another. Essays in the volume's first section identify recurrent patterns in the recycling, adaptation, and remediation of children's toys and media, providing context for section two's exploration of childhood nostalgia in memorial practices. In these essays, the contributors suggest that childhood toys and media play a role in the construction of s the imagined communities (Benedict Anderson) that define nations and nationalism. Eschewing the dichotomy between restorative and reflexive nostalgia, the essays in section three address the ethics of nostalgia in terms of child agency and depictions of childhood. In a departure from the notion that childhood nostalgia is the exclusive prerogative of narrative fiction, section four looks for its traces in the child sciences. Pushing against nostalgia's persistent associations with wishful thinking, false memories, and distortion, this collection suggests nostalgia is never categorically good or bad in itself, but owes its benefits or defects to the ways in which it is brought to bear on the representation of children and childhood.