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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... disabled character in a movie and watch reviewers comment upon the gratuitous nature of the exercise, the “unnecessary” sentiment or grotesque outrage, introduced by disability's mere inclusion. Audiences have all been schooled by ...
... disabled character in a movie and watch reviewers comment upon the gratuitous nature of the exercise, the “unnecessary” sentiment or grotesque outrage, introduced by disability's mere inclusion. Audiences have all been schooled by ...
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... disability becomes a primary preoccupation of narrative art. Disability and Identity In Narrative Prosthesis we mean to help locate disability's place on the map of multicultural studies. Our readings situate disability, like gender ...
... disability becomes a primary preoccupation of narrative art. Disability and Identity In Narrative Prosthesis we mean to help locate disability's place on the map of multicultural studies. Our readings situate disability, like gender ...
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... disability—as a device of artistic innovation that entrenched disability's associations with corruption—serves as a parable for many of the representations of disability traced in this book. Subsequent chapters analyze speci‹c aspects ...
... disability—as a device of artistic innovation that entrenched disability's associations with corruption—serves as a parable for many of the representations of disability traced in this book. Subsequent chapters analyze speci‹c aspects ...
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... disability produce a form of discursive subjugation. The effort to narrate disability's myriad deviations is an attempt to bring the body's unruliness under control. As we will demonstrate, disability's representational “fate” is not so ...
... disability produce a form of discursive subjugation. The effort to narrate disability's myriad deviations is an attempt to bring the body's unruliness under control. As we will demonstrate, disability's representational “fate” is not so ...
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... disability as transgressive of social ideals, this literary strategy also has a visceral effect on the lives of disabled people. While disability's troubling presence provides literary works with the potency of an unsettling cultural ...
... disability as transgressive of social ideals, this literary strategy also has a visceral effect on the lives of disabled people. While disability's troubling presence provides literary works with the potency of an unsettling cultural ...
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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