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UNINA9910457479503321 |
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Watts H. David |
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The orange wire problem and other tales from the doctor's office [[electronic resource] /] / David Watts |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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Physician and patient |
Medicine |
Physicians |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Preface: what you might expect to find here -- Facts and lies -- The orange wire problem -- Brain damage -- Let eagles come -- The chart in the window -- Thank you Mr. Nicholson -- Talking about Christmas -- Silence knows the right questions -- One cancer cell -- Anathema -- Telling the truth in the realm of truth -- Ghosts in the machine -- Blood butterfly -- Is something wrong with your prostate? -- The soft animal of the body -- Aspirin and beauty -- Notes from the center of a perpetual breakdown -- Ready for anything -- A critical distance -- The way we know what we know -- Third opinion -- Hanna's volvulus -- The case of the missing molecule -- The pill on the shelf -- Mother Teresa and the problem of care -- The doctor's pill -- Afterword: brilliance. |
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Western literature has had a long tradition of physician-writers. From Mikhail Bulgakov to William Carlos Williams to Richard Selzer to Ethan Canin, exposure to human beings at their most vulnerable has inspired fine writing. In his own inimitable and unpretentious style, David Watts is also a master storyteller. Whether recounting the decline and death of a dear friend or poking holes in the faulty logic of an insurance company underling, The Orange Wire Problem lays bare the nobility and weakness, generosity and churlishness of human nature. With |
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disarming candor and the audacity to admit t |
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UNINA9910789808403321 |
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Lighting dark places [[electronic resource] ] : essays on Kate Grenville / / edited by Sue Kossew |
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Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2010 |
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1-283-03453-0 |
9786613034533 |
90-420-3286-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Cross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; ; 131 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- Reading Feminism in Kate Grenville’s Fiction / Susan Sheridan -- Kate Grenville as Public Intellectual / Brigid Rooney -- Author, Author!: The Two Faces of Kate Grenville / Elizabeth Mcmahon -- Madness and Power: Lilian’s Story and the Decolonized Body / Bill Ashcroft -- “Africa and Australia” Revisited: Reading Kate Grenville’s Joan Makes History / Kwaku Larbi Korang -- “Mobility is the Key”: Bodies, Boundaries, and Movement in Kate Grenville’s Lilian’s Story / Ruth Barcan -- Homeless and Foreign: The Heroines of Lilian’s Story and Dreamhouse / Kate Livett -- “Impossible Speech” and the Burden of Translation: Lilian’s Story from Page to Screen / Alice Healy -- Constructions of Nation and Gender in The Idea of Perfection / Sue Kossew -- Poison in the Flour: Kate Grenville’s The Secret River / Eleanor Collins -- History, Fiction, and The Secret River / Sarah Pinto -- Learning From Each Other: Language, Authority and Authenticity in Kate Grenville’s The Lieutenant / Lynette Russell -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. |
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This is the first published collection of critical essays on the work of Kate Grenville, one of Australia’s most important contemporary writers. |
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Grenville has been acclaimed for her novels, winning numerous national and international prizes including the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her novels are marked by sharp observations of outsider figures who are often under pressure to conform to society’s norms. More recently, she has written novels set in Australia’s past, revisiting and re-imagining colonial encounters between settlers and Indigenous Australians. This collection of essays includes a scholarly introduction and three new essays that reflect on Grenville’s work in relation to her approach to feminism, her role as public intellectual and her books on writing. The other nine essays provide analyses of each of her novels published to date, from the early success of Lilian’s Story and Dreamhouse to the most recently published novel, The Lieutenant . Her work has been the subject of some debate and this is reflected in a number of the essays published here, most particularly with regard to her most successful novel to date, The Secret River . This intellectual engagement with important contemporary issues is a mark of Grenville’s fiction, testament to her own analysis of the vital role of writers in uncertain times. She has suggested that “writers have ways of going into the darkest places, taking readers with them and coming out safely.” This volume attests to Grenville’s own significance as a writer in a time of change and to the value of her novels as indices of that change and in “lighting dark places.” |
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