Reviews for Counseling, evaluation, and student development in nursing education

The average rating for Counseling, evaluation, and student development in nursing education based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-25 00:00:00 Mike Russo No attempt to deal with as huge a topic as tragedy satisfactorily in less than 200 pages is ever going to be wholly comprehensive, and a glance at the contents page, which shows "Psychoanalysis" awarded a mere six pages, along with four each for "Novels" and "Film", might suggest that this book is going to be fairly superficial. However, Wallace does a very good job not only of explaining her occasionally dense and necessarily complex material clearly, but perhaps more importantly organizing it coherently. The first half of the book focuses on drama, providing a roughly chronological survey of tragedy from the Greeks to Beckett, followed by "case studies" on two dramatic topics: physical violence, and language. The second half (which I approached with some trepidation that turned out to be pleasantly unfounded) does the same for tragic theory, with case studies on fate, politics, and gender following a survey of writing on tragedy from Aristotle to Girard. This approach works well, with even those final few apparently perfunctory chapters on non-dramatic tragedy proving enlightening thanks to the ground-breaking done by the weightier earlier sections. Readers with more than just a casual interest in any one of the individual sections may well find something to quibble with in the details - Are Throne of Blood and Ugetsu really the only two great Japanese films of the 1950s? - but as a whole this is a useful and readable introduction.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-01-08 00:00:00 Jeff Bayless As simultaneously comprehensive and detailed as possible in 200 odd pages, this is a good introduction to Tragedy for the reader with absolutely no previous knowledge of the topic. However, it also utterly lacks original thought and analytical skills - except for the bit where it tries to disprove Kierkegaard's entire thought system in half a page.