Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of DiscourseUniversity of Michigan Press, 2014 M05 21 - 232 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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... characterize life with a disability stretches far beyond the parameters of any single individual life; it reroutes the circuitry of partners and children, friends and family in ways that can be described as anything but individual. A ...
... characterize life with a disability stretches far beyond the parameters of any single individual life; it reroutes the circuitry of partners and children, friends and family in ways that can be described as anything but individual. A ...
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... characterizations about disability that comprise the majority of interactions in our imaginative lives. Our goal is to make narratives of disability a visceral language that signi‹cantly impacts our ability to imagine the lives of ...
... characterizations about disability that comprise the majority of interactions in our imaginative lives. Our goal is to make narratives of disability a visceral language that signi‹cantly impacts our ability to imagine the lives of ...
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... characterization, for one book cannot present an exhaustive account of disability “types” or characters. Instead we seek a ‹nite series of strategies for theorizing the utility and appearance of disability in literary narratives, and we ...
... characterization, for one book cannot present an exhaustive account of disability “types” or characters. Instead we seek a ‹nite series of strategies for theorizing the utility and appearance of disability in literary narratives, and we ...
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... characterization identify how various historical periods in›uenced literature's appropriation of disability. Most basic to the identi‹cation of character through disability is the way in which physical and cognitive differences have ...
... characterization identify how various historical periods in›uenced literature's appropriation of disability. Most basic to the identi‹cation of character through disability is the way in which physical and cognitive differences have ...
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... characterization in narrative art. Second, it enables a contrast between the prosthetic leanings of mainstream discourses that would disguise or obliterate the evidence of physical and cognitive differences, and literary efforts that ...
... characterization in narrative art. Second, it enables a contrast between the prosthetic leanings of mainstream discourses that would disguise or obliterate the evidence of physical and cognitive differences, and literary efforts that ...
Contenido
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Chapter 2 Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor | 47 |
Chapter 3 Montaignes Infinities of Formes and Nietzsches Higher Men | 65 |
The Making and Unmaking of Richard III | 95 |
Chapter 5 The Language of Prosthesis in MobyDick | 119 |
Literary Contortions of the Disabled Body | 141 |
Disability Representations in These Times | 163 |
Notes | 179 |
Works Cited | 197 |
Index | 207 |
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Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
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