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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... Body and Physical Difference, introduction), physical or cognitive inferiority has historically characterized the means by which bodies have been constructed as “deviant”: the Victorian equation between femininity and hysteria; the ...
... Body and Physical Difference, introduction), physical or cognitive inferiority has historically characterized the means by which bodies have been constructed as “deviant”: the Victorian equation between femininity and hysteria; the ...
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... cognitive maladjustment. In all of these cases, biological inferiority had to be exposed as a construction of ... physical or cognitive aberrancy projected onto their ‹gures. Even in disability communities a parallel phenomenon can be ...
... cognitive maladjustment. In all of these cases, biological inferiority had to be exposed as a construction of ... physical or cognitive aberrancy projected onto their ‹gures. Even in disability communities a parallel phenomenon can be ...
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... physical or cognitive anomaly that does not translate into a belief in one's social inferiority? This important query demonstrates one of the ways in which disability studies can make an important contribution to our current theoretical ...
... physical or cognitive anomaly that does not translate into a belief in one's social inferiority? This important query demonstrates one of the ways in which disability studies can make an important contribution to our current theoretical ...
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... physical forms. Yet, while cripples provide productive value for Bruegel, his attendant association of them with a ... physical and cognitive differences have been narrated as alien to the normal course of human affairs. To represent ...
... physical forms. Yet, while cripples provide productive value for Bruegel, his attendant association of them with a ... physical and cognitive differences have been narrated as alien to the normal course of human affairs. To represent ...
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... physical incapacity or cognitive difference. Rather, we set out the coordinates of the social reception and literary representation of those labeled deviant on ideological as well as physical planes. David Wills de‹nes prosthesis as a ...
... physical incapacity or cognitive difference. Rather, we set out the coordinates of the social reception and literary representation of those labeled deviant on ideological as well as physical planes. David Wills de‹nes prosthesis as a ...
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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