Narrative Prosthesis Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

Name: Narrative Prosthesis Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
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ISBN: 9780472067480

ISBN-10: 0472067486

ISBN-13: 9780472067480

Edition: 2001

Authors: David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder

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Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 1/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface: Mapping Identity: Disability and Other "Marked" Bodies


Introduction: 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


Afterword: "The first child born into the world was born deformed": Disability Representations in These Times


Notes


Works Cited


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