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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... human society either by force or by choice . These roles challenge the premises , and the pos- sible ethical applications , of a valuing of human life grounded in a body that is the taskmaster of the will — such a philosophy as Thus ...
... human society either by force or by choice . These roles challenge the premises , and the pos- sible ethical applications , of a valuing of human life grounded in a body that is the taskmaster of the will — such a philosophy as Thus ...
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... human being , " the ugliest man expresses his satisfaction with the fact that Zarathustra " blushed " but did not ... human sentiment directly parallels Nietzsche's own diag- nosis of this universal syndrome . Nothing debases the human ...
... human being , " the ugliest man expresses his satisfaction with the fact that Zarathustra " blushed " but did not ... human sentiment directly parallels Nietzsche's own diag- nosis of this universal syndrome . Nothing debases the human ...
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... human frailty defeats any designs he may have on the conquest of nature or personal renown . To punctuate such a revelation , Ahab finally declares : " Accursed fate ! That the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven ...
... human frailty defeats any designs he may have on the conquest of nature or personal renown . To punctuate such a revelation , Ahab finally declares : " Accursed fate ! That the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven ...
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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 |