Case Study: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

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Case Study: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

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The woman decides to find out more about Braithwaite but not in her current virginal persona (unlike he adventurous and intellectually brilliant late Sister, she prefers the company of her widowed father – her mother having died in odd circumstances – and staying largely at home, albeit her imagination is feverish) – and so adopts an alternative persona of Rebecca Smyth, a sexually-confident habituee of the theatrical scene but struggling with a maladie.As GMB is currently working through an “archive” of materials about Braithwaite (little to be found on the internet he resorts to paper) he has been contemplating a biography but found little interest from his ageng and publisher in the tale of a “forgotten and disgraced character whose work had been out of print for decades”. Include a call-to-action at the end of your study that encourages viewers to take the next step towards becoming a customer or prospect. In the Preface to the book GMB, writing in April 2021, tells us how based on this blog post, he was approached by a “Mr Martin Grey” (an admitted pseudonym) of Clacton-on-Sea with a series of notebooks written by his cousin which he thinks GMB might want to turn into a book as they contain allegations about Braithwaite. London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character. I have to say though that it was its place on that long list that meant I got to the end of the book and ended up enjoying it. I found the first half of the book hard work and almost gave up at several points. Basically, I found myself thinking “Why should I read a book about people I don’t care about doing things I am not interested in and written in a way that I find slightly aggravating?”.

In Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet pulls off the rare feat of writing two parallel narratives that are equally interesting and compelling. Braithwaite, while a repugnant character, is palpably charismatic; ‘Rebecca’ is charming and likeable in spite of (and possibly sometimes because of) her judgemental nature and tendency to fantasise. The details of Rebecca’s world are worthy of Anita Brookner or Barbara Vine, and the slow unfurling of her true nature is delectable. Having just finished Jennifer Egan’s brilliant The Candy House, I thought it would be very difficult to lose myself in a story again, but Case Study is just as engrossing. We are told that Braithwaite was influenced heavily by RD Laing, often seen as leader of the “anti-psychiatry” movement and his book “Divided Self” (T) and that: The “Wearing Warby” campaign involved influencers wearing Warby Parker glasses during their daily activities, providing a glimpse of the brand's products in use. The notebooks are by an unnamed woman whose sister Veronica committed suicide two years before she wrote the book – she believes due to her consulations with Braithwaite, something she only realises after reading a copy of “Untherapy” and realising the penultimate case study is about a lightly fictionalised Veronica (a case study included in her notebook from a ripped out First Edition of the book) before then reading its controversial predecessor “Kill Your Self”.Me ha gustado mucho la protagonista, con una voz fresca y llena de sentido del humor, con sus dos personalidades en lucha, entre lo convencional y la liberación que traían los 'Swinging Sixties'. This was supposedly set in the 1960s. I was around them, albeit very young but I really can’t remember people speaking like Rebecca or being so self absorbed. Maybe it was because I am a heathen Aussie but my memories of that era and into the 70s is of not giving a fig what people thought. We just did what we wanted and had a good time. I never spent long in front of a mirror obsessively examining my face and clothing, I was just anxious to get of the door and party, nobody gave a toss about appearances. It read as set at least a decade earlier. And maybe the author was trying to make some point that escapes me or he is not able to channel a young woman as well as he thinks. Oooh controversial! Yo lo empecé a leer como un libro de intriga esperando una resolución convencional y a ratos me resultó algo plano, junto con un final que me desconcertó. Pero conforme pasan los días voy encontrando nuevas capas de significado y me va gustando más, esa es la prueba clara de que la lectura me ha valido la pena. To be fair, GMB writes smoothly and fluently, and there's a sense of humour that makes this quite fun in places. But the found footage formula of His Bloody Project is repeated here in a - yawn - set of diaries sent to the 'editor' of this account, which is interspersed with the editor's own - dull - biography of the psychologist whom the diary writer is consulting.

A young woman visits Collins Braithwaite, the enigmatic figure, under the guise of Rebecca Smyth. Her real name, through the journals we read, is never revealed to the reader. However, her sister, Veronica, had been a patient of Braithwaite a few years prior, and she believes Braithwaite inadvertently had a hand in Veronica's suicide. Sin embargo, ELLA (así, en mayúsculas) me ha parecido lo más brillante de toda la novela. Ha construido una protagonista de quitarse el sombrero, no tanto por su personalidad, como por todo lo que representa: la educación de la mujer, la represión de la personalidad, las convicciones sociales, la depresión... ¿Qué es locura?

If there is a recurring theme through the cases he presents though, it is that his clients are traumatised not by their eccentricities themselves, but by the stress of concealing them; of being forced to present different personae to different audiences. Braithwaite’s remedy is to embrace the idea of ‘being several’ (a phrase he uses repeatedly): to give up the idea that one persona is any ‘truer’ than any of the others. Once one has thrown off the idea of a ‘hierarchy of selves’ one can happily be whoever one wants, whenever ones wants. Is Case Study ambitious and original enough to win the Booker Prize? Not so sure but I am glad it made it to the longlist, otherwise I might not have heard of it. Just a little final warning: the female narrator's (no name on purpose here) voice is so highly addictive that getting it out of your head might be a challenge: I have just started another book with a supposedly brilliant, funny narrator and instead of enjoying her eloquence, I obsessively keep recalling the protagonist of Case Study. Others are written in a more narrative style, aiming to explore the case from various angles and analyze its meanings and implications (for example, by using textual analysis or discourse analysis). But worry not! Our expert case study writing service is here to take all your case-writing blues away! Master's in Asset Management Intensive introduction to investing with leading faculty and practitioners.

At the end of your case study, you should offer possible solutions, but don’t worry about solving them yourself. Providing a summary of the key achievements at the end of the case study can help readers better understand the project's impact. Lots of literary allusions get thrust in from the fairly obvious Rebecca and The Yellow Wallpaper, to quotations from King Lear's 'mad' scenes. Cumulative case studies collect information and offer comparisons. In business, case studies are often used to tell people about the value of a product. In his preface to the main text, GMB puts forward certain minor inaccuracies in the notebooks as grounds for questioning their authenticity, and as readers we would be advised to be equally suspicious. Those already familiar with Burnet’s writing have met GMB before, not only as the writer and researcher who claims distant kinship with the teenage murderer Roddy Macrae in His Bloody Project, but also as the translator of Burnet’s two “Raymond Brunet” crime novels. The defining essence of Burnet’s work to date is to be found in this kind of literary gamesmanship, a brand of metatextuality that is as much about exploiting the possibilities of the novel form as it is about blurring the boundaries between appearance and reality. In throwing us into doubt about which – and more crucially whose – story we are supposed to be following, Burnet encourages us to look more closely at the inherent instability of fiction itself. The painstakingly assembled, predominantly mimetic fiction of the 19th century has trained us to trust the author; Burnet has always delighted in undermining such easy assumptions, and in Case Study he ups the stakes still further, providing a veritable layer cake of possible realities to get lost in.

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Case studies are often a good choice in a thesis or dissertation. They keep your project focused and manageable when you don’t have the time or resources to do large-scale research. The structure of a case study is very similar to storytelling. It has a protagonist or main character, which in your case is actually a problem you are trying to solve. You can use the system of 3 Acts to make it a compelling story. It should have an introduction, rising action, a climax where transformation occurs, falling action, and a solution. The results of the digital transformation were impressive. XYZ Corporation saw a 20% increase in production efficiency, a 15% reduction in operating costs, and a 10% increase in customer satisfaction. The company was able to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving industry and continue to grow its business.



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