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Signifying pain : constructing and healing the self through writing /
"Signifying Pain applies the principles of therapeutic writing to such painful life experiences as mental illness, suicide, racism, domestic abuse, and even genocide. Probing deep into the bedrock of literary imagination, Judith Harris traces the odyssey of a diverse group of writers - John Kea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2003.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Signifying Pain applies the principles of therapeutic writing to such painful life experiences as mental illness, suicide, racism, domestic abuse, and even genocide. Probing deep into the bedrock of literary imagination, Judith Harris traces the odyssey of a diverse group of writers - John Keats, Derek Walcott, Jane Kenyon, Michael S. Harper, Robert Lowell, and Ai, as well as student writers - who have used their writing to work through and past such personal traumas. Drawing on her own experience as a poet and teacher, Harris shows how the process can be long and arduous, but that when exercised within the spirit of one's own personal compassion, the results can be limitless. Signifying Pain will be of interest not only to teachers of creative and therapeutic writing, but also to those with a critical interest in autobiographical or confessional writing more generally."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-289) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417536039 9781417536030 0791456838 9780791456835 0791456846 9780791456842 9780791487068 0791487067 |