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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... prove a stubborn “fact” of personal negotiation. Ironically, the day ‹nally came when a handicap permit seemed a good alternative to the four hundred dollars' worth of parking tickets we had acquired. Was it the belief in “passing” that ...
... prove a stubborn “fact” of personal negotiation. Ironically, the day ‹nally came when a handicap permit seemed a good alternative to the four hundred dollars' worth of parking tickets we had acquired. Was it the belief in “passing” that ...
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... proves variable, vulnerable, and inscribable. The body is ‹rst and foremost a linguistic relation which cannot be natural or average. The textual nature of language, be it oral or print, lacks the very physicality that it seeks to ...
... proves variable, vulnerable, and inscribable. The body is ‹rst and foremost a linguistic relation which cannot be natural or average. The textual nature of language, be it oral or print, lacks the very physicality that it seeks to ...
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... proves true of all prosthetic interventions. In this sense, disability studies in the humanities shares an approach with our readings of the literature, which is to expose rather than disguise the prosthetic relation of disability and ...
... proves true of all prosthetic interventions. In this sense, disability studies in the humanities shares an approach with our readings of the literature, which is to expose rather than disguise the prosthetic relation of disability and ...
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... proves as international as it does biologically varied. Why does characterization of disability so often result in indelible, albeit overwrought, literary portraits? We suggest that the problem disability studies scholars perceive in ...
... proves as international as it does biologically varied. Why does characterization of disability so often result in indelible, albeit overwrought, literary portraits? We suggest that the problem disability studies scholars perceive in ...
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... proves another side of the negative-imagery coin because to critique inadequate, dehumanizing, or false representations is to simultaneously call for more acceptable representations. Yet the distinction between negative and positive proves ...
... proves another side of the negative-imagery coin because to critique inadequate, dehumanizing, or false representations is to simultaneously call for more acceptable representations. Yet the distinction between negative and positive proves ...
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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