| Description |
xvii, 211 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Corporealities |
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Corporealities.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-205) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
People with disabilities in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Snyder, Sharon L., 1963-
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| ISBN |
0472097482 alkaline paper |
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9780472097487 alkaline paper |
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0472067486 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780472067480 paperback alkaline paper |
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