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Narrative prosthesis : disability and the dependencies of discourse / David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, David T., 1962- author.
- Snyder, Sharon L., 1963- author.
- Series:
- Corporealities.
- Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities in literature.
- Literature, Modern--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : The University of Michigan Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface - Mapping Identity: Disability and Other "Marked" Bodies
- Introduction - Disability as Narrative Supplement
- Chapter 1. Representation and Its Discontents: The Uneasy Home of Disability in Literature and Film
- Chapter 2. Narrative Prosthesis and the Materiality of Metaphor
- Chapter 3. Montaigne's "Infinities of Formes" and Nietzsche's "Higher Men"
- Chapter 4. Performing Deformity: The Making and Unmaking of Richard III
- Chapter 5. The Language of Prosthesis in Moby-Dick
- Chapter 6. Modernist Freaks and Postmodern Geeks: Literary Contortions of the Disabled Body
- Afterword "The first child born into the world was born deformed": Disability Representations in These Times
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472097487
- 0472097482
- 9780472120802
- 0472120808
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