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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... critique, disability studies scholarship in the humanities advances out of similar methodological beginnings as gender, race, and sexuality. This book begins addressing the meanings of the question mark beneath the category of ...
... critique, disability studies scholarship in the humanities advances out of similar methodological beginnings as gender, race, and sexuality. This book begins addressing the meanings of the question mark beneath the category of ...
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... critiques, and suggestions in a supportive and insightful manner. Lennard Davis and his family have been overwhelmingly generous with time, useful pointers, and home space. Anja Tervooren not only ventured to the United States to ...
... critiques, and suggestions in a supportive and insightful manner. Lennard Davis and his family have been overwhelmingly generous with time, useful pointers, and home space. Anja Tervooren not only ventured to the United States to ...
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... critique, and as an option in the narrative negotiation of disabled subjectivity. The centrality of these issues demonstrates that disability is a prevalent characteristic of narrative discourses. Consequently, Narrative Prosthesis sets ...
... critique, and as an option in the narrative negotiation of disabled subjectivity. The centrality of these issues demonstrates that disability is a prevalent characteristic of narrative discourses. Consequently, Narrative Prosthesis sets ...
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... critiques the premodern penchant for interpreting disability as a sign of divine disfavor and superstitious revelation ... critique of Christianity's curative propositions. Chapter 3 establishes the contrary impulses of disability ...
... critiques the premodern penchant for interpreting disability as a sign of divine disfavor and superstitious revelation ... critique of Christianity's curative propositions. Chapter 3 establishes the contrary impulses of disability ...
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... critique. Anderson's novel makes possible a literal theory of narrative prosthesis, we argue, by recognizing a bona ‹de story in the encounter with external differences. His small-town characters, stulti‹ed by provincial middle America ...
... critique. Anderson's novel makes possible a literal theory of narrative prosthesis, we argue, by recognizing a bona ‹de story in the encounter with external differences. His small-town characters, stulti‹ed by provincial middle America ...
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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