The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury
The Language and Imagery of Coma and Brain Injury

Author: Matthew Colbeck

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1350077801

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What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don't know. Yet the sheer volume of literary and media texts would have us believe that we do. Examining representations of coma and brain injury across a variety of texts, this book investigates common tropes and linguistic devices used to portray the medical condition of coma, giving rise to universal mythologies and misconceptions in the public domain. Matthew Colbeck looks at how these texts represent, or fail to represent, long-term brain injury, drawing on narratives of coma survivors that have been produced and curated through writing groups he has run over the last 10 years. Discussing a diverse range of cultural works, including novels by Irvine Welsh, Stephen King, Tom McCarthy and Douglas Coupland, as well as film and media texts such as The Sopranos, Kill Bill, Coma and The Walking Dead, Colbeck provides an explanation for our fascination with coma. With a proliferation of misleading stories of survival in the media and in literature, this book explores the potential impact these have upon our own understanding of coma and its victims.

WHO WILL SHE WED?
WHO WILL SHE WED?

Author: Andrea Edwards

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2011-07-15

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1459266838

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ACCIDENTALLY YOURS Unlike his love-'em-and-leave-'em celebrity twin Neal, country veterinarian Nick Sheridan had suffered a heartful of hurt. So why not accept Neal's challenge to trade places on a glamorous jaunt with world-class seductress Colleen Cassidy? Nick could kick up Neal's heels. Savor a footloose flirtation. Leave love and loss behind…right? Wrong! For Colleen's secret sweetness cramped Nick's charade—and tumbled him headlong into lasting passion. Worse, Colleen, too, teetered on the brink of total surrender. But was this wondrous woman falling for Nick…or Neal? DOUBLE WEDDING: After switching identities, twin brothers find themselves on the road to marriage!

Comaville
Comaville

Author: Kevin Bigley

Publisher: Clash Books

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781944866532

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Nostalgia can be severely corrosive. This is what thirty-six-year old Josh will come to find out as he wakes up in his childhood bedroom with no recollection of how he got there. As he ventures out into the world, he's dumbfounded to discover that he is ensconced in a city of memory with people from his past: teachers, camp councilors, beloved sitcom stars, and they relish Josh's presence, celebrating everything he does. He is in a personalized paradise. In reality, Josh is in a coma. Intercut between his story, Steph, his younger sister, quarrels with their parents in a hospital room over what is to be done with her vegetative brother. Their various conversations manifest physically in his coma. The longer Josh is submerged, the more peril his brain is in as neurons die off. The familiar faces that once brought comfort will be replaced with ghoulish masks. He'll learn this place has malevolent intentions as it threatens to devour his soul.

Dead Reign
Dead Reign

Author: Tim Pratt

Publisher: Spectra

Published: 2008-10-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0553905724

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Death has come calling, and one woman has what he wants most of all... As chief sorcerer of Felport, Marla Mason thought she’d faced every kind of evil the magical world had to offer. But she’s never faced a killer like this. He’s dark, glib, handsome as the devil—and exactly who he says he is. Death—in the flesh. He’s arrived in Felport with a posse composed of a half-insane necromancer and the reanimated corpse of John Wilkes Booth, and he isn’t leaving until he gets what he came for. Only Marla is crazy enough to tell Death to go back to Hell. With the Founders’ Ball just around the bend, drawing together the brightest, meanest, and most dangerous of Felport’s magical elite, the last thing Marla needs is all-out war with the King of the Underworld, but that’s exactly what she’s got. As the battle lines are drawn, she can count on her hedonistic, body-hopping partner Rondeau…but how many of her old allies will stand by her side when facing the ultimate adversary? To save her city, Marla will have to find a way to cheat Death…literally.

Action!
Action!

Author: Marshall Julius

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780253210913

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The A-Z includes: 250 key action movies rated and reviewed with detailed credit lists and behind-the-scenes information; a no-holds-barred guide to the greatest one-liners, comebacks and monologues in action movie history; top tens, a tough-as-nails trivia quiz and more.

Falling Awake
Falling Awake

Author: Shasta Larken

Publisher: Shasta Larken

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13:

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Carli Thornley and Josh Thornton grew up together in the picturesque town of August Lake. Despite their family’s differences, the two banded together to face the challenges of high school, becoming best friends. Carli immerses herself in her education, while Josh lives for hockey and his dream of becoming the Red Valley Ravens' next draft pick. One warm spring day, in broad daylight, Carli’s worst fears come true. In the blink of an eye, a terrible accident happens, and Josh slips into a coma. His family is torn apart, and Carli is left to pick up the shattered pieces alone. Her loyalty is tested like she never could have imagined, and shocking secrets about Josh’s family are revealed. Carli strives to hold his family together, but even with her best efforts, Josh remains unreachable. Until one day, everything changes. In the summer that follows the accident, Carli must face the consequences of that single fateful day and find a way to cope…or the courage to move on.

Becoming Supernatural
Becoming Supernatural

Author: J. Miller Wilson

Publisher: J.Miller Wilson

Published: 2008-10-25

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0578004291

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Have you ever wondered what it's like becoming supernatural-manipulated by pyschic abilities that overwhelm an ordinary life? How would you handle it? Mark Justin is becoming supernatural but he does not want it, doesn't understand it and has supressed it until now---visions, dreams and unbelievable psychic energies threaten to destroy his ideal middle class life. In this imaginative psychological thriller, church corruption, media exploitation and Justin's expanding powers build to a stunning conclusion. Life doesn't prepare anyone for becoming supernatural but in the end you save yourself and those you love any way you can.

Climatological Data
Climatological Data

Author: United States. Weather Bureau

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13:

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Collection of the monthly climatological reports of the United States by state or region with monthly and annual National summaries.

The Messenger Conflicted
The Messenger Conflicted

Author: Joel Pierson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-06-11

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1475993943

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Tristan Shays is a shadow of the man he once was. Robbed of his memories, his career, and the woman he loves, he must learn his lifes work all over again. Blessed and cursed with the ability to see dangers before they happen, he travels the country, warning the victims before its too late. His only companionship comes from a man claiming to be his cousinwho acts like a friend but feels like an enemy. Lost, confused, and deeply conflicted, Tristan is at war with his own nature, uncertain of whether he wants to spend his life saving strangers, or if theyre even worth saving. Whats more, answers about his painful questthe only thing he truly wantscontinue to elude him. Through it all, one name haunts himKarolena, the person who stole so much of his happiness and left him for dead. Each day brings him closer to their inevitable confrontation, but when the past is a blur and the truth is constantly being rewritten, how can Tristan possibly trust anyone but himself? Joel Pierson is a literary rock star in the making. His incomparable, irresistible Messenger series has firmly planted him in the high ground of romantic modern fantasy. With his bullwhip pacing, sassy dialogue, and roller-coaster plotting, Pierson takes his place alongside Dean Koontz, Laurel K. Hamilton, and Charlaine Harris in the pantheon of thrill writers. Jay Bonansinga, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury