Disability and modern fiction : Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the nobel prize for literature /

Disability and Modern Fiction explores shifting definitions and representations of physical and mental impairment in 20th and 21st century culture through a focus on the work of William Faulkner, Toni Morrison and JM Coetzee. Taking as its starting point Virginia Woolf's essay 'On Being Il...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Alice (Literature professor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Temas:
Faulkner, William, > 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Coetzee, J. M., > 1940- > Criticism and interpretation.
Coetzee, J. M., > 1940-
Faulkner, William, > 1897-1962
Morrison, Toni
2000-2099
Fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in literature.
Mind and body in literature.
Nobel Prize winners.
Body and soul in literature.
Roman > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esprit et corps dans la littérature.
Lauréats du Prix Nobel.
Literary studies: from c 1900 > English.
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Literature.
Body and soul in literature
Fiction
Mind and body in literature
Nobel Prize winners
People with disabilities in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Disability and Modern Fiction: Charting New Territory
  • Tales Told by an Idiot: Disability and Sensory Perception in William Faulkner's Fiction and Criticism
  • Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Work of Toni Morrison
  • Dialectics of Dependency: Aging and Disability in J.M. Coetzee's Later Writing
  • Disability as Metaphor: The Nobel Prize Lectures of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee
  • Conclusion: 'You Can't Just Fly on off and Leave a Body'
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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