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Epilepsy Metaphors Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature 1990–2015 Eleana Vaja
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaja, Eleana <p>Eleana Vaja, Düsseldorf, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Lettre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Literature.
- Conceptual Metaphors.
- Metastability.
- Normativity.
- Siri Hustvedt.
- Literature.
- Body.
- Medicine.
- American Studies.
- Disability Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- American Literature.
- Conceptual Metaphors.
- Metastability.
- Normativity.
- Siri Hustvedt.
- Literature.
- Body.
- Medicine.
- American Studies.
- Disability Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Vaja, Epilepsy Metaphors Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature 1990–2015
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2017
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Eleana Vaja (PhD) taught American literary and cultural studies at the University of Cologne. Her research interests include U.S. American literature, philosophy, and disability studies.
- Summary:
- Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability to categorize and examine these foci further. Applying philosophy as well as "hard sciences" (i.e. mathematics, medicine, physics) to disability studies, her study of selected works by Siri Hustvedt, Thom Jones, Reif Larsen, Dennis Mahagin, Audrey Niffenegger, Rodman Philbrick, and Lauren Slater shows how epilepsy metaphors redefine the notion of the "liminal" and the "normal".
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 9 I.A Falling Asleep: The Stigma of Epilepsy in History 21 I.B American Literature: From Stigma to Metaphor? 39 I.C Ableist Metaphors: Historical Motifs and Normalcy 55 II.A Jürgen Link and Michel Foucault: Symptomatic Signification of Proto- and Flexmetaphors 69 II.B George Canguilhem: Vital Materiality and Relational Metaphors 81 II.C Gilbert Simondon: Transindividual Metastability and Conceptual Metaphors 95 III.A Metaphor and Society: Proto- and Flexmetaphors and Calculated Individuation 115 III.B Metaphor and Materiality: The Relational Body and Its Electric Individuation 157 III.C Metaphor and Idioms: Siri Hustvedt's Metastable Rhetoric as Transindividuation 191 Conclusion 235 Bibliography 239
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839441183
- 3839441188
- OCLC:
- 1009322953
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