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100 1  Savarese, Ralph James,|eauthor. 
245 10 See it feelingly :|bclassic novels, autistic readers, and 
       the schooling of a no-good English professor /|cRalph 
       James Savarese. 
264  1 Durham :|bDuke University Press,|c2018. 
300    xviii, 273 pages ;|c24 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Thought in the act 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Prologue: river of words, raft of our conjoined 
       neurologies -- From a world as fluid as the sea -- The 
       heavens of the brain -- Andys and auties -- Finding her 
       feet -- Take for Grandin. 
520    Since the 1940s researchers have been repeating claims 
       about autistic people's limited ability to understand 
       language, to partake in imaginative play, and the generate
       the complex theory of mind necessary to appreciate 
       literature. In this book the author, an English professor 
       whose son is one of the first nonspeaking autistics to 
       graduate from college, challenges this view. Discussing 
       fictional works over a period of years with readers from 
       across the autism spectrum, the author was stunned by the 
       readers' ability to expand his understanding of texts he 
       knew intimately. Their startling insights emerged not only
       from the way their different bodies and brains lined up 
       with a story but also from their experiences of stigma and
       exclusion. For Mukhopadhyay "Moby Dick" is an allegory of 
       revenge against autism, the frantic quest for a cure. The 
       white whale represents the autist's baffling, because 
       wordless, immersion in the sensory. Computer programmer 
       and cyberpunk author Dora Raymaker skewers the empathetic 
       failings of the bounty hunters in Philip K. Dick's "Do 
       Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Autistics, some studies
       suggest, offer instruction in embracing the non-human. 
       Encountering a short story about a lonely marine biologist
       in Antarctica, Temple Grandin remembers her past with an 
       uncharacteristic emotional intensity, and she reminds the 
       reader of the myriad ways in which people can relate to 
       fiction. Why must there be a norm? Mixing memoir with 
       current research in autism and cognitive literary studies,
       the author celebrates how literature springs to life 
       through the contrasting responses of unique individuals, 
       while helping people both on and off the spectrum to 
       engage more richly with the world. 
650  0 Autistic people|xPsychology. 
650  0 Autistic people|xLanguage. 
650  0 Autistic people|xEducation. 
650  0 English fiction|xStudy and teaching. 
650  7 Autistic people|xLanguage.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01864687 
650  7 English fiction|xStudy and teaching.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00910858 
650  7 EDUCATION / Essays.|2bisacsh 
650  7 LITERARY CRITICISM / American.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities.|2bisacsh 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aSavarese, Ralph James.|tSee it 
       feelingly.|dDurham : Duke University Press, 2018
       |z9781478002734|w(DLC)  2018015605 
830  0 Thought in the act. 
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