Accounting Theory: Essays by Carl Thomas Devine (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)

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One of the outstanding accounting theoreticians of the twentieth century, Carl Thomas Devine exhibited a breadth and depth of knowledge few in the field of accounting have equaled. This book collects together eight previously unpublished essays on accounting theory written by Professor Devine.

Professor Devine passed away in 1998, prior to the significant scandals that have plagued accounting and business since the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen. Many of the essays collected here are particularly important given these events. The first three essays are devoted to ethics and provide profound insights into the importance of a profession's ethical presuppositions. The book then presents essays which provide a critical examination of the relevance of hermeneutics and deconstruction to an understanding of accounting practice and an analysis of the academic "game" particularly with respect to Professor Devine's experiences in the Florida university system. The final essay in the volume is devoted to acritique of rational choice theory applications in accounting.

Revisiting and building upon themes developed in earlier work, this collection of essays will be essential reading for accounting historians, accounting theoreticians and all those interested in the work of Carl Thomas Devine.

Carl Thomas Devine: Essays in Accounting Theory (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)

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Carl Thomas Devine: Essays in Accounting Theory (Routledge New Works in Accounting History)
H. Hendrickson
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This book presents a collection of thirteen essays by one of America's great academic accountants, Carl Devine. The essays explore in substantial depth the evolution of Professor Devine's philosophy, research, and thinking during his nearly sixty years of study. The extent of his knowledge spans a variety of disciplines from science and mathematics to philosophy and religion. This eclectic collection of essays is continuously rewarding, and with even a cursory review one quickly discovers the richness and breadth of Devine's work.

This book will be an invaluable historical and scholarly legacy to future generation of accounting students and educators. In them Professor Devine reflects objectively on some of the personalities in, and development of accounting and accounting thought during two momentous generations in which a revolution has occurred in accounting research and in the accounting/auditing professions.

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Devine Inspiration

Essays in accounting theory
Carl Thomas Devine
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Devine Inspiration.......2000-02-14

Dr. Devine's philosophies were viewed by many scholars as not only exemplar but legendary. I can remember when Berkeley thought he had radical and rebellious thought processes back in the sixties. Little did anyone know how important his work was, let alone how influencial it had become. He was truly a modest hero. He believed what he believed and didn't care what the general concensus thought. These essays are the best he could do. Which is more than most of us can comprehend. These books took a lifetime to compose and should be required reading for any accounting or finance doctoral student. I am most sure that I am not biased. These essays are of a high intensity level. Believe me when I tell you that these are a must read. They should be coveted. I should know since I spent all of my 34 years watching him write them on the dining room table. I know how incredible his work is and hope you will enjoy them as much as I have. I enjoyed being his daughter.

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The experts tell us that a typical job search can drag on for up to seven months-so it's no surprise that many job seekers become dispirited by the process. In this guide, a psychologist who specializes in career counseling helps you strip away your emotional defenses, embrace the uncertainties of today's job market, and move beyond the issues that prevent you from finding the work you love. Dancing Naked is full of practical job-hunting tips, but it's much more than the typical job-search book. It's about bringing creativity, spontaneity, even exuberance to the job search process. Guided by imaginative exercises, you'll learn how to sidestep self-doubt, recognize your career identity, pinpoint your goals, and use contacts and resources to manage your career with confidence and maximum effectiveness.

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Career Hunters need to Dance Naked!.......2002-02-03

An excellent addition to books on careers. The book has a whole section on career identity. This is useful as most of us identify ourselves by our career identity rather than our personal characteristics, family background or origins from the part of the world we come from. Another section deals with managing emotions in the context of career change. Ultimately, it is indeed a book not only for career counsellors but also for any career hunter or someone who has been affected by redundancies! Some very useful and helpful ideas to re-invent yourself and your career. A book that fills a void in career counselling! Thank you, Prof. Chope.

Great for Employers, too!.......2000-09-25

This book is aimed at employees who are interested in changing their career or their job, depending on age and circumstance. As an employer, I purchased this book from Amazon to learn how "new" employees were thinking. I learned a lot from the employee's viewpoint, but found many of the chapters extremely thought provoking and useful for employers.

The last part of the book is primarily great advice, but the first part of the book I could not put down as it taught me quite a bit. In fact, I have passed it on to some business owners I know as I found the information very useful. The book is also very well written and easy to read.

Beating a path to your own door.......2000-09-11

This job search book helped me understand why the job market of today feels so stressful -- one reason being that lots of people are changing jobs (I love the term "portfolio career") or, like I did in my 40's, starting a second career. So it helps to have a tool like this to take your pulse and remind you that it's not you, it's THEM -- you're just reacting normally to a crazy world -- and then guide you with ways to cope. The author doesn't make yet another approach at explaining how to prepare resumes and write letters. Instead, Robert Chope addresses the emotions that come up when you're looking for a job or considering a career, which can be scary and confusing. For instance, maybe you want to make a change but doing that would go against a parent's or partner's desires. Maybe just the idea of a job quest makes you nervous or suddenly need a nap. This book addresses situations like that and many many others: fear, anger, uncertainty, indecisiveness, and the book reminds us too that physical well being is important. The rules, exercises, examples, suggestions, and lists of resources are helpful and goal directed, and most of all the positive, encouraging tone is energizing. If you're stumped, Chope's book will help you find your way.

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A Reassuring and Informative Guide
That Offers New Hope For Expectant Parents

Along with inspiring accounts of women who have delivered healthy babies after years of heartbreak, Dr. Jonathan Scher provides the latest medical information on preventing recurrent miscarriages, including why couples with "unexplained infertility" actually may be suffering repeat pregnancy loss due to failure of the embryo to implant in the womb, important immunological and tissue tests that may explain or prevent miscarriage, emerging treatments such as heparin and I.V.I.G., updated resources, and much more.

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Best book on miscarriage!.......2007-09-30

I had a recent miscarriage and the information in this book was the best that I could find. I read many other books and none were as helpful as this one. It gives you the latest information on causes, prevention and your emotions. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has had a miscarriage.

Great for Trying to Figure Out Recurrent Losses!.......2007-07-10

This might be a little too much if you've suffered only 1 m/c. However, after experiencing recurrent miscarriages, it has been extremely informative! It's definitely worth the money to read it!

Informative.......2006-08-24

It was a nice mixture of stories from women who have been through miscarriage and sceintific data.

Good book but needs updated.......2006-06-29

This book is good, but doesn't answer many of my questions. I have had 2 miscarriages and this book did give me some info on what may have gone wrong. But, it really needs updated since it was written in the early 90's. There are some more testing that can be done now that isn't mentioned.

Informative.......2006-06-06

No doubt if you have suffered a miscarriage, you scoured the net for information and answers. Preventing Miscarriage does repeat alot of what can be found on the net but also offers other interesting information and statistics. I certainly found this book a help when looking for answers.

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Preventing Miscarriage : The Good News
Jonathan; Dix, Carol Scher
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PREVENTING MISCARRIAGE, THE GOOD NEWS
M.D., Jonathan and Carol Dix Scher
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Preventing Miscarriage: The Good News
Carol Dix Jonathan Scher
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Palladium(II) ion imprinted polymer (IIP) materials were prepared via bulk, precipitation and suspension polymerization methods using similar compositions. In these polymerization methods, the polymerization mixture consists of a ternary complex of palladium(II) imprint ion with 8-aminoquinoline (AQ), 4-vinyl pyridine (VP, monomer), 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA, functional monomer), ethylene glycoldimethacrylate (EGDMA, cross-linking monomer), 2,2'-azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN, initiator) and 2-methoxy ethanol (Porogen). Various polymerization methods were carried out by thermal means and IIP materials thus obtained were leached with 50% (v/v) HCl to obtain leached IIP particles. Control polymer (CP) particles were similarly prepared by all the three polymerization methods. The above synthesized polymer particles were characterized physically and morphologically by using FTIR, TGA, CHN, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopic (SEM) techniques. Furthermore, their capacity to rebind palladium(II) was investigated from dilute aqueous solutions and in presence of selected precious and transition elements (which are known to coexist with palladium in its mineral deposits). The rebinding studies of IIP particles obtained via bulk, precipitation and suspension methods reveal that (i) percent enrichment is quantitative with bulk and precipitation, and ~72% only in case of suspension; (ii) retention capacities are 28.82, 20.16 and 18.76mg palladium(II)/g materials, respectively; (iii) selectivity for palladium(II) over other noble and transition elements lies in the order bulk~precipitation>emulsion. Moreover, the IIP particles obtained by all three polymerization methods exhibit imprinting effect when compared with respective CP particles.

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Twenty-five arresting selections from the groundbreaking journal that defined a genre.

Creative nonfiction, also known as narrative nonfiction, liberated journalism by inviting writers to dramatize, interpret, speculate, and even re-create their subjects. Lee Gutkind collects twenty-five essays that flourished on this new ground, all originally published in the journal he founded, Creative Nonfiction, now celebrating its tenth anniversary. Lauren Slater is a therapist in the institution where she was once a patient. John Edgar Wideman reacts passionately to the unjust murder of Emmett Till. Charles Simic tells of wild nights with Uncle Boris. John McPhee creates a rare, personal, album quilt. Terry Tempest Williams speaks on the decline of the prairie dog. Madison Smartt Bell invades Haiti. Many of the writers are crossing genres—from poetry and fiction to nonfiction—symbolic of Creative Nonfiction's scope and popularity.

A cross section of the famous and those bound to become so, this collection is a riveting experience highlighting the expanding importance of this dramatic and exciting new genre.

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In Fact.......2007-02-10

I love the book, thank-you. It also got to my university in time for the beginning of the semester. I was the only person that had it with such a low cost. Thank-you Amazon. You will be seeing me again.!

excellent : Ralph Wahlstrom-author of The Tao of Writing.......2006-12-28

I ordered this book sight-unseen for a new course I'm offering in the spring. I wasn't disappointed. The writing is varied, often challenging and always compelling. I recommend this to anyone who wonders what creative nonfiction is all about.

GREAT TEXTS... GREAT CHOICES... GREAT BOOK!!!.......2006-08-17

This book is one of best compilation titles I ever found.
Perfect if you want to read some of the best nonfiction pieces around.

The subjects multiply of these 25 great essays... from wolves and hunters... to a woman with deseases... to a man fascinated with people named like him... to a guy who remembers his uncle's strange apartment meetings... and so on...

All of those texts are written with a unique style and a rare passion who raised my interest everytime I took the book and started to read.

In fact, while some of the essays here didn't have a subjecto who'd speak to me on a personal level, the thing is... they are all so well written that I just kept on reading. And I did found more to this genre than I used to see.

I recomend this book to writers, readers and just anybody in for a great reading ride.

Mr. Gutkind did a marvelous job collecting theses texts. That must be said.

The introduction (notes for young writers) is also an awesome way to introduce the wonders of this genre.

Highly recomended.

Impossible to put down and short pieces whice can be browsed through at will.......2006-03-29

For those unfamiliar with Lee Gutkind, she was instrumental in working on an creating one of my favorite literary publications, Creative Nonfiction. Each issue was devoted to a particular subject, from Family to Intimate Matters or Surviving Crisis.

Just last night, in fact, I read one of the pieces from one of those publications, an essay called "Shunning" which told of the loss of identity faced by a pregnant teen in the 60s, during a time when getting pregnant outside of marriage could cause everyone to turn their backs on a person.

Now I"m thrilled that Gutkind has compiled some of the best examples of Creative Nonfiction. Not only because I'm already a fan of her work but also because I love reading but am short on time. This book is perfect because it allows me to start and finish an entire piece in the book without having to set aside hours to do so. I don't HAVE to read it in a few days or one or two sittings.

I urge you to experience the joys of Creative Nonfiction, especially as compiled by someone as discerning as Gutkind.

It is great for those who have to read in fits and starts, perhaps while waiting to pick up a kid after school or while waiting in line at the drive-up window at the bank. In short, it is perfect for taking with you while on a trip, on the run or when you have a few minute in your day to sit down, have a cup or coffee (or snack) and let one of the many wonderful writers in this volume take you away from you usual routine.

An Overlooked Genre On A New & Exciting Spin! .......2006-03-18

I enjoyed this book SO much, I can't recommend it enough! Creative Nonfiction is a relatively new genre, or overlooked. But the genre has now come to the forefront, and it is DIVINE! Lee Gutkind assimilated some fantastic "creative nonfiction" authors, and the result is that of a creme brulee. (really, if you love books as much as I do, you'll understand what I mean. Some people simply assume that nonfiction books are dry, and boring. NOT. "In Fact: The Best Of Creative Nonfiction" surprised me, and basically kept me glued to the book. I finished it in one night, and for me, that is rare. But the writers that Mr. Gutkind chose for this undertaking are so perfect for this genre, and it was a highly interesting read. I can't recommend it enough! BUY IT NOW!

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Emotional, Like Toni Morrison's Characters.......2007-05-10

Read this true-to-life story of survival, and see how awareness can build hope. The feelings you'll get reading about these characters are reminiscent of reading Toni Morrison

A good read.......2007-04-11

I wanted to read this book because I saw the movie a long time ago and it was quite good. The book was very interesting. I didn't like the ending too much but not all stories have a happy ending.

Wonderfully Moving.......2007-03-06

Wonderful book. It's a moving story because it's so well written. Really. It's great.

Bastard out of Carolina.......2007-02-21

This story is so very, very sad. It is very well written and the characters are so well developed that they leap right off of the pages. Difficult at times because of the subject matter but a true story of survival. Well worth all of its critical acclaim.

Not to be missed.......2006-11-13

This author should be required reading in colleges and universities, and I would say High Schools. Awareness can give those who suffer hope, give understanding of true suffering and strength to outsiders, and perhaps shame those would hurt the defenseless. I can not say enough good things about this intense novel.

I bought this book because the author's books `Skin' and `Trash' are spotlighted in the anthologies `Courting Pleasure' and `Lovers: love and sex stories' by Tee A. Corinne. I enjoyed them both tremendously and sought out this book.

From the back of the book - Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family--rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious--until their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.

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BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA [ 1st ]
Dorothy Allison
Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GU6968

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Not to be missed.......2006-11-13

This author should be required reading in college and universities, and I would say High Schools. Awareness can give those who suffer hope, give understanding of true suffering and strength to outsiders, and perhaps shame those would hurt the defenseless. I can not say enough good things about this intense novel.

I bought this book because the author's books `Skin' and `Trash' are spotlighted in the anthologies `Courting Pleasure' and `Lovers: love and sex stories' by Tee A. Corinne. I enjoyed them both tremendously and sought out this book.

From Publishers Weekly
Allison's remarkable country voice emerges in a first novel spiked with pungent characters ranging from the slatternly to the grotesque, and saturated with sense of place--Greenville, S.C. Ruth Anne Boatwright, 13, got the nickname Bone at birth, when she was tiny as a knucklebone, and the tag acquires painful derivatives, like "Bonehead." While her mother, Annie, a waitress, tries vainly to get the word "illegitimate" scrubbed from Bone's birth certificate, her tobacco-spitting granny reminds her she's a [...]. The identity of her real father, whom granny drove away, is kept from her. Surrounded by loving aunts and uncles, Bone still endures ridicule (she's homely, she has no voice for gospel singing) and--from vicious Daddy Glen, her mother's new husband--beatings and sexual abuse. Bone takes refuge in petty crime, like breaking into Woolworth's, and finds her truest friend in unmarried Aunt Raylene, who once had a great love for another woman. Annie gently defends Daddy Glen, blaming her daughter, until the tale's inevitably brutal climax. Mental and physical cruelty to women forms a main theme, illuminated by the subplot of pathetic albino Shannon Pearls, her story rife with Southern gothic overtones. Allison, author of the well-received short story collection Trash , doesn't condescend to her "white trash" characters; she portrays them with understanding and love.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Set in the rural South, this tale centers around the Boatwright family, a proud and closeknit clan known for their drinking, fighting, and womanizing. Nicknamed Bone by her Uncle Earle, Ruth Anne is the [...] child of Anney Boatwright, who has fought tirelessly to legitimize her child. When she marries Glen, a man from a good family, it appears that her prayers have been answered. However, Anney suffers a miscarriage and Glen begins drifting. He develops a contentious relationship with Bone and then begins taking sexual liberties with her. Embarrassed and unwilling to report these unwanted advances, Bone bottles them up and acts out her confusion and shame. Unaware of her husband's abusive behavior, Anney stands by her man. Eventually, a violent encounter wrests Bone away from her stepfather. In this first novel, Allison creates a rich sense of family and portrays the psychology of a sexually abused child with sensitivity and insight. Recommended for general fiction collections.
-Kimberly G. Allen, National Assn. of Home Builders Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews
A girl comes of age in '50's South Carolina fighting the label ``trash'' and the violent advances of her stepfather: an overly familiar story as Allison (Trash, 1988) handles the material in a surprisingly nostalgic way. When narrator Ruth Ann Boatwright (nicknamed Bone) is born to 15-year-old unmarried Anney, the word ``ILLEGITIMATE'' is stamped in big red letters on the birth certificate; for years, Anney will stubbornly try to get a new document without the glaring stigma. She will also try to make a decent home for her two daughters, marrying Glen Waddell, who--the black sheep of a prominent local family--admires the heavy-drinking, brawling Boatwright men. Glen adores Anney but the Boatwrights have their reservations: ``the boy could turn like whiskey in a bad barrel.'' Indeed, not only does he have trouble holding a job but soon makes Bone a scapegoat for his frustrations: she suffers beatings and sexual molestation, keeping silent in order not to spoil her mother's hard-won happiness. Though the family triangle is the dramatic center of the novel, the narrative meanders through the story of the Boatwright clan. Bone reflects on her strong and independent (if hard-treated) aunts and appreciates family strength, love, and loyalty while recognizing that the outside world sees the Boatwrights as antisocial trash. Compassionate if not very compelling; after the often searing power of Allison's short stories, she seems not to have claimed her voice so much as tamed it. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Bastard Out of Carolina and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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Bastard Out of Carolina and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

Manufacturer: InsightOut Books
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ASIN: 0965375382

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Not to be missed!.......2006-11-13

I can not say enough good things about this intense novel. This book should be required reading in colleges and universities, and I would say High Schools. Awareness can give those who suffer hope, give understanding of true suffering and strength to outsiders, and perhaps shame those would hurt the defenseless.

I bought this book because the author's other books `Skin' and `Trash' are spotlighted in the anthologies `Courting Pleasure' and `Lovers: love and sex stories' by Tee A. Corinne. I enjoyed them both tremendously and sought out this book.

From the back of the book - Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family--rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing everything with the mercilessly keen eye of a child, Bone finds herself caught in a family triangle that will test the loyalty of her mother, Anney. Her stepfather, Daddy Glen, calls Bone "cold as death, mean as a snake, and twice as twisty," yet Anney needs Glen. At first gentle with Bone, Daddy Glen becomes steadily colder and more furious--until their final, harrowing encounter, from which there can be no turning back.

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BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA
DOROTHY ALLISON
Manufacturer: Dutton
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ASIN: B000OL1LOY

Bastard Out of Carolina (Unabridged Audiobook--8 Cassette Edition)

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Bastard Out of Carolina (Unabridged Audiobook--8 Cassette Edition)
Dorothy Allison
Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio
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ASIN: B000MDBJSW

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From Library Journal Set in the rural South, this tale centers around the Boatwright family, a proud and closeknit clan known for their drinking, fighting, and womanizing. Nicknamed Bone by her Uncle Earle, Ruth Anne is the bastard child of Anney Boatwright, who has fought tirelessly to legitimize her child. When she marries Glen, a man from a good family, it appears that her prayers have been answered. However, Anney suffers a miscarriage and Glen begins drifting. He develops a contentious relationship with Bone and then begins taking sexual liberties with her. Embarrassed and unwilling to report these unwanted advances, Bone bottles them up and acts out her confusion and shame. Unaware of her husband's abusive behavior, Anney stands by her man. Eventually, a violent encounter wrests Bone away from her stepfather. In this first novel, Allison creates a rich sense of family and portrays the psychology of a sexually abused child with sensitivity and insight. Recommended for general fiction collections. -Kimberly G. Allen, National Assn. of Home Builders Lib., Washington, D.C. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Bastard Out of Carolina 1ST Edition Inscribed

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Bastard Out of Carolina 1ST Edition Inscribed
Dorothy Allison
Manufacturer: DUTTON
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Bastard Out of Carolina Signed 1ST
Dorothy Allison
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The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony

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Limitless Vision

The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony
Leigh Gilmore
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Astute and compelling commentaries.......2001-06-07

In The Limits Of Autobiography: Leigh Gilmore (Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University) offers astute and compelling commentaries in relation to the social and psychic forms within which selected autobiographers told their personal stories in literate and unconventional ways. The informative, thought-provoking chapters comprising this unique and highly recommended contribution to the literary study of the autobiography include: Represent Yourself; Bastard Testimony: Illegitimacy and Incest in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina; There Will Always Be a Father: Transference and the Auto/biographical Demand in Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart; There Will Always Be a Mother: Jamaica Kincaid's Serial Autobiography; Without Names: An Anatomy of Absence in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body; Conclusion - the Knowing Subject and an Alternative Jurisprudence of Trauma. The Limits Of Autobiography is enhanced further for the student with a bibliography and index.

Limitless Vision.......2001-01-19

THE LIMITS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY is ground-breaking in its originality and range, dramatic in its intensity and depth, and endlessly surprising in its illumination of six fictive autobiographies (SHOT IN THE HEART, WRITTEN ON THE BODY, BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA, ANNIE JOHN, LUCY, and MY BROTHER). Leigh Gilmore weaves a thrilling variety of approaches into her interpretations. Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Post-Colonial, Post-Structuralist, Trauma and Legal theories all inform her readings but never dominate the discussion. Theoretical knowledge is elegantly integrated, rather than applied, allowing Professor Gilmore to achieve a miraculous balance in her use of language: her work will challenge scholars while remaining accessible to any curious reader. I believe this is an ideal text around which to organize an undergraduate or graduate course in the study of fiction and/or autobiography; but Leigh Gilmore's knowledge of psychology and law is so impressive this remarkable work should find its way out of traditional English departments. I hope this is the case. Her understanding of trauma and the creation of imaginative texts--"autobiographies" that break the rules of form and bear no allegiance to literal or verifiable "facts"--could change the way victims of trauma are understood and treated by legal and health care professionals. Leigh Gilmore's ability to enter and unravel each text is testimony to her compassion and wisdom--and proof of her genius. This is profund and daring work, limitless in its vision of the human heart and the hope of transformation through the redemptive power of our own imaginations.

A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison: Cavedweller, Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison: Cavedweller, Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Dorothy Allison
Manufacturer: Plume/Dutton
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ASIN: 0525944346

Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 11, Chapter 3)

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Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 11, Chapter 3)

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