Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of DiscourseUniversity of Michigan Press, 2000 - 211 páginas "Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse" develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare's "Richard III, " Melville's Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" and Katherine Dunn's self-induced freaks in "Geek Love." David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Northern Michigan University. Sharon L. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature, Northern Michigan University. |
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... Ahab's crippling accident and subsequent prosthetic alteration bequeath to him a static identity that resists even Ish- mael's fluid interpretational practices . Ahab's disability proves recalcitrant to the linguistic ambiguity that ...
... Ahab's crippling accident and subsequent prosthetic alteration bequeath to him a static identity that resists even Ish- mael's fluid interpretational practices . Ahab's disability proves recalcitrant to the linguistic ambiguity that ...
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... Ahab's resourcefulness , but as proof of the extent to which he will go to fulfill his " singular " quest : “ But almost everybody supposed that this par- ticular preparative heedfulness in Ahab must only be with a view to the ulti ...
... Ahab's resourcefulness , but as proof of the extent to which he will go to fulfill his " singular " quest : “ But almost everybody supposed that this par- ticular preparative heedfulness in Ahab must only be with a view to the ulti ...
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... Ahab's behavior in his disablement and the " mystery " of his " deeper parts " cannot avoid the revelation of an “ explanatory light . ” Although this interpretation is offered in the above passage only in terms of Ahab's " temporary ...
... Ahab's behavior in his disablement and the " mystery " of his " deeper parts " cannot avoid the revelation of an “ explanatory light . ” Although this interpretation is offered in the above passage only in terms of Ahab's " temporary ...
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The Uneasy | 15 |
Narrative Prosthesis and | 47 |
Montaignes Infinities of Formes | 65 |
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Términos y frases comunes
ability aesthetic Ahab Ahab's Anderson's anomalies argues artistic audience belief biological bodily catalog chapter characterization contemporary crip cripples critical critique cultural deformity demonstrate depictions deviance disability scholars disability studies disability subjectivity disability's disabled body disabled characters discourses discussion Dunn's embodied encounter English Patient essay eternal return euthanasia evidence example experience fictional figures film freak show Geek Love grotesque historical human hunchback ical identify identity ideological images individual Infinities of Formes interpretation interrogates literary narratives literature lives material meaning Melville Melville's metaphor Moby-Dick monstrosity Montaigne Montaigne's moral mythic narrative prosthesis narrator nature Nietzsche Nietzsche's normalcy norms novel Olympia performance perspective philosophical physical aberrancy physical and cognitive physical differences physical disability physiognomy play ples political portraits postmodern prosthetic protagonist proves provides representations of disability Richard Richard III seek Shakespeare's social realism Socrates Steadfast Tin Soldier story surface symbolic textual theory tion tradition Übermensch Victorian Winesburg writers Zarathustra
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Disability Studies and the Hebrew Bible: Figuring Mephibosheth in the David ... Jeremy Schipper Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
Normalität und Behindertenpädagogik: historisch und normalismustheoretisch ... Ute Weinmann Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |