Islands of Mania
Islands of Mania

Author: Yohanna Abdullah

Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore

Published: 2021-09-15

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 154375922X

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. When Alysha Nassir, a writer and a mother of two young children, discovers her husband’s affair with his colleague, her entire world comes crashing down. As she loses her grasp on reality, she finds herself transported to an other-worldly realm, where her inner demons are unleashed in a nightmare that would last for years. She goes in and out of mental hospitals as she grapples with her crumbling marriage, issues with her mother-in-law, and her parents’ own marital struggles. Despite this, Adam and Sarina carry on with their trysts, and Alysha is faced with the prospect of being part of a polygamous union. Will she choose divorce or polygamy? Her arduous road to recovery finds her in many dangerous liaisons. Islands of Mania is a journey into the mind experiencing the highs and lows of bipolar disorder. It is a raw and unforgettable account about how mental illness devastates and yet, suffuses light into the mundane world. It is also an inspiring tale of hope, love, and faith. ....The past breeds trust Wounds do heal When all are forgiven Only unconditional faith remains Pure True Worthy of The Lover’s Getaways on Isles of Paradise Where chained souls break free....

Insularity vs. Islomania. The Island Setting and Shipwreck Experience in Three Dystopian Novels
Insularity vs. Islomania. The Island Setting and Shipwreck Experience in Three Dystopian Novels

Author: M. Klaiber

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2023-04-12

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 3346853756

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Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: This thesis explores three dystopian novels that depict different forms of island societies: "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by H. G. Wells (1896), "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding (1954), and "The Wall" by John Lanchester (2019). The author splits his text into two parts: a theoretical framework and an analysis. The theoretical framework is again subdivided. The first section lays the foundation for the analysis of dystopian island settings, and explains and discusses important concepts and key terms regarding dystopia and islands. Subsequently, the author provides an overview of functions that islands can fulfill for a society. The second section of the theoretical framework introduces and explains the tools necessary for the analysis of control mechanisms within societies. These tools make it possible to uncover how the respective fictional society organises and controls itself. For the analysis of control mechanisms and power structures in these societies this thesis draws on various concepts of power proposed by Michel Foucault. In the analysis, which constitutes the second main part of this thesis, the author examines each novel separately, in chronological order. By systematically applying the guiding questions mentioned in the methodology, a detailed analysis of the insular societies depicted in the three novels is conducted.

Theorising Literary Islands
Theorising Literary Islands

Author: Ian Kinane

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-11-16

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1783488085

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Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western “islomania” – or our obsession with islands – from its origins in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe right up to contemporary Robinsonade texts, focusing predominantly on American and European representations of fictionalized Pacific Island topographies in contemporary literature, film, television, and other media. Theorising Literary Islands argues that the ubiquity of island landscapes within the popular imagination belies certain ideological and cultural anxieties, and posits that the emergence of a Western popular culture tradition can largely be traced through the development of the Robinsonade genre, and through early European and American fascination with the Pacific region.

Theorising Literary Islands
Theorising Literary Islands

Author: Ian Kinane

Publisher: Rethinking the Island

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781783488063

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Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century Euro...

Minute Mania
Minute Mania

Author: Lisa Tefford

Publisher: Tangerine Press

Published: 2003-10-01

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780439519175

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"With over 1000 questions! Turn the timer and let the fun begin."--Cover.

Islands, Law and Context
Islands, Law and Context

Author: Malcolm D. Evans

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-07-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1802207635

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This ground-breaking book challenges legal orthodoxy, presenting an original approach to the treatment of islands in international law. It offers a new perspective on how to define islands in international law, questioning how they differ from other maritime features. It focuses on the contextual factors that bear upon the legal treatment of islands, recognising that, in practice, islands have varied and unequal impacts and arguing that greater focus on context is needed to understand legal outcomes, particularly those concerning maritime boundary delimitation.