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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... representational studies about disability. Truly, literary and historical texts have rarely appeared to offer disabled characters in developed, “positive” portraits.1 Does literary/cultural studies have anything to offer our apprehension.
... representational studies about disability. Truly, literary and historical texts have rarely appeared to offer disabled characters in developed, “positive” portraits.1 Does literary/cultural studies have anything to offer our apprehension.
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... portraits.1 Does literary/cultural studies have anything to offer our apprehension of disability other than demeaning portraits of disabled people in history and the archive? Can ‹ndings in this inquiry be connected to the contemporary ...
... portraits.1 Does literary/cultural studies have anything to offer our apprehension of disability other than demeaning portraits of disabled people in history and the archive? Can ‹ndings in this inquiry be connected to the contemporary ...
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... portraits and demeaning cultural attitudes toward people with disabilities. In this way, the negative-imagery school set out to establish a continuum between limiting literary depictions and dehumanizing social attitudes toward disabled ...
... portraits and demeaning cultural attitudes toward people with disabilities. In this way, the negative-imagery school set out to establish a continuum between limiting literary depictions and dehumanizing social attitudes toward disabled ...
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... portraits by drawing up all of ‹lm history into a net of conspiracy. The Hollywood ‹lmmaker, according to Norden, participates in an exploitative scheme that capitalizes upon the visual spectacle that disabilities offer to the camera ...
... portraits by drawing up all of ‹lm history into a net of conspiracy. The Hollywood ‹lmmaker, according to Norden, participates in an exploitative scheme that capitalizes upon the visual spectacle that disabilities offer to the camera ...
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... portraits were inaccurate and misleading. A new social realism3 was needed to counter misguided attitudes about people with disabilities. As Deborah Kent argued in “Disabled Women: Portraits in Fiction and Drama,” one could posit a ...
... portraits were inaccurate and misleading. A new social realism3 was needed to counter misguided attitudes about people with disabilities. As Deborah Kent argued in “Disabled Women: Portraits in Fiction and Drama,” one could posit 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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