Three Characters

Author: Christopher Bollas
Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
ISBN: 1800130422
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 117

Book Description
It is important to point out that these essays are about character types; it is not to suggest that all borderlines, narcissists or manic depressives are the same. Everyone is an individual and are who they are for many different reasons. What they have in common is a typical relation between their subjectivity and the world they inhabit. In other words, Christopher Bollas has identified the axioms that these individuals share. Following a discussion of the features of each type, the axioms are delivered in the character's own voice. By placing ourselves within their own logic, we can begin to identify and empathise with them. At the root of all character disorders there is mental pain and each disorder is an intelligent attempt to solve an existential problem. If the clinician can grasp their specific intelligence and help the analysand to understand this, then a natural process of healing can begin. Three Characters is a masterclass based on decades of lectures presented to psychoanalysts, analytical psychologists, and psychotherapists, and is a must-read for all psychoanalytic enthusiasts.

Character

Author: Amanda Anderson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022665866X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Over the last few decades, character-based criticism has been seen as either naive or obsolete. But now questions of character are attracting renewed interest. Making the case for a broad-based revision of our understanding of character, Character rethinks these questions from the ground up. Is it really necessary to remind literary critics that characters are made up of words? Must we forbid identification with characters? Does character-discussion force critics to embrace humanism and outmoded theories of the subject? Across three chapters, leading scholars Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi reimagine and renew literary studies by engaging in a conversation about character. Moi returns to the fundamental theoretical assumptions that convinced literary scholars to stop doing character-criticism, and shows that they cannot hold. Felski turns to the question of identification and draws out its diverse strands, as well as its persistence in academic criticism. Anderson shows that character-criticism illuminates both the moral life of characters, and our understanding of literary form. In offering new perspectives on the question of fictional character, this thought-provoking book makes an important intervention in literary studies.

Three Sisters

Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
The play focuses on the lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, young women of the Russian gentry who try to fill their days in order to construct a life that feels meaningful while surrounded by an array of military men, servants, husbands, suitors, and lovers, all of whom constitute a distractions from the passage of time and from the sisters' desire to return to their beloved Moscow.

SEC Docket

Author: United States. Securities and Exchange Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Securities
Languages : en
Pages : 990

Book Description

Flight Services

Author: United States. Federal Aviation Administration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautical radio stations
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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The Art of Cinematic Storytelling

Author: Kelly Gordon Brine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190054344
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
To effectively narrate a story in moving images, a film director needs to have a full understanding of the meaning and emotional effect of different types of shots and cuts and how they can be used to advance the action and create a desired mood. Drawing on his vast experience as a storyboard artist working with over 200 directors and cinematographers on television series and movies, author Kelly Gordon Brine provides a practical and accessible introduction to the design of shots, cuts, and transitions for film, video, television, animation, and game design. With hundreds of illustrations and diagrams, concise explanations of essential storytelling concepts, and vivid examples, The Art of Cinematic Storytelling demystifies the visual design choices that are fundamental to directing and editing. Brine delves deeply into techniques visual storytellers use to captivate and move an audience, including camera positioning, transitions, and planning shots with an eye to continuity editing. Practical advice on how to clarify time, space, and motion on a visual level and on shooting common character interactions and situations--such as dialogue, pursuit, and driving scenes--makes this book an invaluable guide for all aspiring filmmakers.

The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language

Author: Sin-Wai Chan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131738248X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 1085

Book Description
The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and scholars in Chinese studies. Featuring the research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by a number of eminent academics in the field, this volume will meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of anyone interested in the Chinese language: from Sinologists to Chinese linguists, as well as teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language. The encyclopedia explores a range of topics: from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference offers a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests. The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.

Coins of the World: China

Author: George S. Cuhaj
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440231338
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 837

Book Description
In this single, easy-to-use and affordable download you will find detailed descriptions, updated values in multiple grades, and high-quality illustrations of every Chinese coin issued in the 20th century. Every coin, from every province, from every corner of the country. If 20th century Chinese coinage is your thing, this download is your key to successful collecting of Chinese coins.

Beginning MySQL

Author: Robert Sheldon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0764596578
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 866

Book Description
Provides programmers with a complete foundation in MySQL, the multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server that easily stores, updates, and accesses information Offers detailed instructions for MySQL installation and configuration on either Windows or Linux Shows how to create a database, work with SQL, add and modify data, run queries, perform administrative tasks, and build database applications Demonstrates how to connect to a MySQL database from within PHP, Java, ASP, and ASP.NET applications Companion Web site includes SQL statements needed to create and populate a database plus three ready-to-use database applications (in PHP, Java, and ASP.NET)

Petroleum Engineering

Author:
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401096015
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
The need for this book has arisen from demand for a current text from our students in Petroleum Engineering at Imperial College and from post-experience Short Course students. It is, however, hoped that the material will also be of more general use to practising petroleum engineers and those wishing for aa introduction into the specialist literature. The book is arranged to provide both background and overview into many facets of petroleum engineering, particularly as practised in the offshore environments of North West Europe. The material is largely based on the authors' experience as teachers and consultants and is supplemented by worked problems where they are believed to enhance understanding. The authors would like to express their sincere thanks and appreciation to all the people who have helped in the preparation of this book by technical comment and discussion and by giving permission to reproduce material. In particular we would like to thank our present colleagues and students at Imperial College and at ERC Energy Resource Consultants Ltd. for their stimulating company, Jill and Janel for typing seemingly endless manuscripts; Dan Smith at Graham and Trotman Ltd. for his perseverence and optimism; and Lesley and Joan for believing that one day things would return to normality. John S. Archer and Colin G. Wall 1986 ix Foreword Petroleum engineering has developed as an area of study only over the present century. It now provides the technical basis for the exploitation of petroleum fluids in subsurface sedimentary rock reservoirs.