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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... evidence for what many critics have seen as an un›inching devotion to detailing the “misery of the human condition.” Brueghel's works (particularly his masterworks composed in the year before his death) rely upon the representational ...
... evidence for what many critics have seen as an un›inching devotion to detailing the “misery of the human condition.” Brueghel's works (particularly his masterworks composed in the year before his death) rely upon the representational ...
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... evidence of physical and cognitive differences, and literary efforts that expose prosthesis as an arti‹cial, and thus, resigni‹able relation. Third, it refers to the problematic nature of the literary's transgressive ideal in relation ...
... evidence of physical and cognitive differences, and literary efforts that expose prosthesis as an arti‹cial, and thus, resigni‹able relation. Third, it refers to the problematic nature of the literary's transgressive ideal in relation ...
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... evidence. This metaphorization of disability supplies the myth with a solid hold in corporeality. These examples show that disability supplies a multiple utility to literary characterizations, even while literature abandons a serious ...
... evidence. This metaphorization of disability supplies the myth with a solid hold in corporeality. These examples show that disability supplies a multiple utility to literary characterizations, even while literature abandons a serious ...
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... evidence for inherent frailties in “the human condition.” For example, Herbert Blau defends literary portraits of disability by explaining that they cause us to “concede that we are all, at some warped level of the essentially human ...
... evidence for inherent frailties in “the human condition.” For example, Herbert Blau defends literary portraits of disability by explaining that they cause us to “concede that we are all, at some warped level of the essentially human ...
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... evidence: Shakespeare's murderous, hunchbacked king, Richard III; Melville's obsessive, one-legged captain, Ahab; and Dickens's sentimental, hobbling urchin, Tiny Tim. The repeated citation of these three ‹gures as central to disability ...
... evidence: Shakespeare's murderous, hunchbacked king, Richard III; Melville's obsessive, one-legged captain, Ahab; and Dickens's sentimental, hobbling urchin, Tiny Tim. The repeated citation of these three ‹gures as central to disability ...
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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