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  • A Life of One's Own

    by Marion Milner ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'This is what I really want. I want to discover ways to discriminate the important things in human life. I want to find ways of getting past this blind fumbling with existence.' - Marion Milner, from A Life of One’s Own.How often do we really ask ourselves, 'What will make me happy? What do I really want from life?' In A Life of One’s Own Marion Milner, a renowned British psychoanalyst, artist and ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • On Not Being Able to Paint

    by Marion Milner ...
    Series series The Collected Works of Marion Milner
    Milner’s great study, first published in 1950, discusses the nature of creativity and those forces which prevent its expression. In focusing on her own beginner’s efforts to draw and paint, she analyses not the mysterious and elusive ability of the genius but – as the title suggests – the all too common and distressing situation of ‘not being able’ to create.With a new introduction by Janet Sayers ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Hands of the Living God

    An Account of a Psycho-analytic Treatment

    by Marion Milner ...
    Series series The Collected Works of Marion Milner
    At once autobiographical and psychoanalytic, The Hands of the Living God, first published in 1969, provides a detailed case study of Susan who, during a 20-year long treatment, spontaneously discovers the capacity to do doodle drawings.An important focus of the book is the drawings themselves, 150 of which are reproduced in the text, and their deep unconscious perception of the battle between ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Eternity's Sunrise

    A Way of Keeping a Diary

    by Marion Milner ...
    Series series The Collected Works of Marion Milner
    Following on from A Life of One’s Own and An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity’s Sunrise explores Marion Milner’s way of keeping a diary. Recording small private moments, she builds up a store of ‘bead memories.’ A carved duck, a sprig of asphodel, moments captured in her travels in Greece, Kashmir and Israel, circus clowns, a painting - each makes up a 'bead' that has a warmth or glow which comes ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • An Experiment in Leisure

    by Marion Milner ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'Before I began this experiment I had always been haunted by the feeling that the surface of life, what everyone said about it, was quite different from the reality of life, that the important things that were happening all the time were on the whole quite different from what was said about them.' - Marion MilnerWhat is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How much of our experience ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Marion Milner

    by Marion Milner ...
    Series series The Collected Works of Marion Milner
    In this series, Emma Letley has worked with the Marion Milner estate to re-contextualise six classic volumes by arranging for experts to provide new scholarly introductions to each book.This six volume pack comprises:The Hands of the Living GodOn Not being Able to PaintEternity's SunriseA Life of One's OwnAn Experiment in Leisure.Bothered by AlligatorsThese volumes will be useful and relevant to ... Read more

    $170.00 USD

  • The Human Problem in Schools (1938)

    A Psychological Study Carried out on Behalf of the Girls' Public Day School Trust

    by Marion Milner ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1938, this book documents a psychological study carried out on behalf of the Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Comprising 25 schools, the trust set the standard for girls’ education for the first decade of the twentieth century and the pioneering study was set to serve the cause of national education.Marion Milner documents the study and her findings across four sections with topics ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Bothered By Alligators

    by Marion Milner ...
    Series series The Collected Works of Marion Milner
    Milner's final text, Bothered by Alligators, came about when, in her nineties, she unexpectedly came across a diary she had kept during the early years of her son's life, recording his conversations and play between the ages of two and nine. With it was a storybook written and illustrated by him when he was about seven years old.Whilst working on the material, Milner gradually realised that both ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    Anxiety about how we speak prevents many of us from expressing ourselves well. In her classic handbook, Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and world-famous voice teacher, tackles the reasons for this anxiety and explains her practical exercises for relaxation and breathing, clarity of diction and vocal flexibility - everything that you need to achieve good speech. ... Read more

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  • Study and Revise for AS/A-level: AQA Anthology: love poetry through the ages

    by Luke McBratney ...
    Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise the AQA A Poetry Anthology throughout the course.This Study and Revise guide:- Increases students' knowledge of the AQA A Poetry Anthology as they progress through the detailed commentary and ... Read more

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  • Art Objects

    Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

    by Jeanette Winterson ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves, she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us."Art Objects is a book to be admired for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Language of Fiction

    Essays in Criticism and Verbal Analysis of the English Novel

    by David Lodge ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was already the author of three successful novels at the time of its first publication in 1966 - and lucid exposition meant that the work proved a landmark of literary criticism, not least because it succeeded ... Read more

    $27.99 USD