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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Página xii
... tradition to assume that an artist must thereby be aiming for an Oscar or injecting a ready-made motive into a story. One ‹nds this likewise to be the case in academic symposia, classrooms, and shopping malls. For disability entails a ...
... tradition to assume that an artist must thereby be aiming for an Oscar or injecting a ready-made motive into a story. One ‹nds this likewise to be the case in academic symposia, classrooms, and shopping malls. For disability entails a ...
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... tradition. Thanks also to Shirley, Charlie, David, Dolores, Dale, Kathy, Zoe, Sharon, Mike, Cassie, and Garrick. William, Estel, Marianna Brown, Eugene, and Christine Hadley Snyder sustain the best family relations around. (Though we do ...
... tradition. Thanks also to Shirley, Charlie, David, Dolores, Dale, Kathy, Zoe, Sharon, Mike, Cassie, and Garrick. William, Estel, Marianna Brown, Eugene, and Christine Hadley Snyder sustain the best family relations around. (Though we do ...
Página 1
... tradition whereby each generation of artists responds to those who preceded them. However, the book does explain the ways in which authors, working from a variety of disability contexts, read and revise oppressive social rhetorics. We ...
... tradition whereby each generation of artists responds to those who preceded them. However, the book does explain the ways in which authors, working from a variety of disability contexts, read and revise oppressive social rhetorics. We ...
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... tradition that would come to mark the life of the peasantry through disability. In the latter sense, disabled ‹gures would provide a contrast to the graceful aesthetic conventions that governed depictions of royalty and the upper ...
... tradition that would come to mark the life of the peasantry through disability. In the latter sense, disabled ‹gures would provide a contrast to the graceful aesthetic conventions that governed depictions of royalty and the upper ...
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... tradition of negative portrayals as it is tethered to inciting the act of meaning-making itself. The importance of this textual convention cannot be underestimated. While other identities such as race, sexuality, and ethnicity have ...
... tradition of negative portrayals as it is tethered to inciting the act of meaning-making itself. The importance of this textual convention cannot be underestimated. While other identities such as race, sexuality, and ethnicity have ...
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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