Narrative prosthesis : disability and the dependencies of discourse
David T. Mitchell (Author), Sharon L. Snyder (Author)
"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."--Publisher's description
eBook, English, 2000
The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (230 pages).
9780472120802, 9781306881272, 0472120808, 1306881277
1038737125
Disability as narrative supplement
Representation and its discontents: the uneasy home of disability in literature and film
Narrative prosthesis, and the materiality of metaphor
Montaigne's "Infinities of Formes: and Nietzsche's "Higher Men"
Performing deformity: The making and unmaking of Richard III
The language of prosthesis in Moby-Dick
Modernist freaks and postmodern geeks: literary contortions of the disabled body
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