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Autistic disturbances : theorizing autism poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe / Julia Miele Rodas ; with a foreword by Melanie Yergeau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodas, Julia Miele, 1965- author.
- Series:
- Corporealities
- Corporealities: discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autism in literature.
- Autistic people in literature.
- Language and languages in literature.
- Autistic people--Language.
- Autistic people.
- English prose literature--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- American prose literature--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 230 pages).
- Other Title:
- Theorizing autism poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- While research on autism has sometimes focused on special talents or abilities, autism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and offers a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive aesthetics of autistic rhetoric and semiotics. Reinterpreting characteristic autistic verbal practices such as repetition in the context of a more widely respected literary canon, Julia Miele Rodas argues that autistic language is actually an essential part of mainstream literary aesthetics, visible in poetry by Walt Whitman and Gertrude Stein, in novels by Charlotte BronteÌ and Daniel Defoe, in life writing by Andy Warhol, and even in writing by figures from popular culture. Autistic Disturbances pursues these resonances and explores the tensions of language and culture that lead to the classification of some verbal expression as disordered while other, similar expression enjoys prized status as literature. It identifies the most characteristic patterns of autistic expression-repetition, monologue, ejaculation, verbal ordering or list-making, and neologism-and adopts new language to describe and reimagine these categories in aesthetically productive terms. In so doing, the book seeks to redress the place of verbal autistic language, to argue for the value and complexity of autistic ways of speaking, and to invite recognition of an obscured tradition of literary autism at the very center of Anglo-American text culture.
- Contents:
- Foreword by Melanie Yergeau
- Preface: Involuntarity and intentionality
- Chapter one: Introduction
- Chapter two: Articulating autism poetics
- Chapter three: On the surprising elasticity of taxonomical rhetoric
- Chapter four: Nothingness himself
- Chapter four-and-a-half: (Why "Bartleby" doesn't live here)
- Chapter five: Neuroqueer narration in Charlotte BronteÌs Villette
- Chapter six: The absence of the object: autistic voice and literary architecture in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Chapter seven: Autism and narrative invention in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
- Unconclusion: Because the butterfly: autistic infinitudes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from publisher.
- Contains:
- Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), issuing body, publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472124107
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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