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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... interpretation, and survival in the maze of what Gary Albrecht calls the “disability business.” The experience of disability embedded itself in both of our habits and thoughts to such an extent that we no longer differentiated between ...
... interpretation, and survival in the maze of what Gary Albrecht calls the “disability business.” The experience of disability embedded itself in both of our habits and thoughts to such an extent that we no longer differentiated between ...
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... interpreted in painted images / And viewed through her cripples, is stupe‹ed by ‹nding that Bruegel is her equal” (Stechow 150). In the drawings of various “cripples,” replete with each one's individuated mobility emphasized by various ...
... interpreted in painted images / And viewed through her cripples, is stupe‹ed by ‹nding that Bruegel is her equal” (Stechow 150). In the drawings of various “cripples,” replete with each one's individuated mobility emphasized by various ...
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... interpretation. In a manner parallel to Foucault's analysis in The Birth of the Clinic, we argue that literary efforts to illuminate the dark recesses of disability produce a form of discursive subjugation. The effort to narrate ...
... interpretation. In a manner parallel to Foucault's analysis in The Birth of the Clinic, we argue that literary efforts to illuminate the dark recesses of disability produce a form of discursive subjugation. The effort to narrate ...
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... interpreting disability as a sign of divine disfavor and superstitious revelation. Montaigne's pragmatic approach to disability prefaces Enlightenment science and a refusal to interpret bodies as vehicles for religious meanings. In ...
... interpreting disability as a sign of divine disfavor and superstitious revelation. Montaigne's pragmatic approach to disability prefaces Enlightenment science and a refusal to interpret bodies as vehicles for religious meanings. In ...
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... interpretations have been at best obscured, and, at worst, ignored in criticism and pedagogy. Finally, we end with a discussion of Richard Powers's recent disability novel, Operation Wandering Soul, and Atom Egoyan's ‹lm adaptation of ...
... interpretations have been at best obscured, and, at worst, ignored in criticism and pedagogy. Finally, we end with a discussion of Richard Powers's recent disability novel, Operation Wandering Soul, and Atom Egoyan's ‹lm adaptation of ...
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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