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Dysfluencies : On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature /
"Dysfluencies is the first comprehensive study of how speech disorders are portrayed in modern literature. Tracing the roots of this interaction between literary practice and speech pathology back to the rise of aphasiology in the 1860s, Dysfluencies examines portrayals of disordered speech by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Neurolinguistic Turn; Chapter 1 Aphasia and Neurology in Zola and Proust; "la vieille paralytique"; "nervous being"; "raucous sounds"; "menacé d'aphasie"; "dissonant voices"; "whispered words"; Chapter 2 Speech Disorders and Shell Shock in World War I Writing; "Kindred Disorders"; "no stammer previous to shock"; "You can't communicate noise"; "the new voice from Craiglockhart"; Chapter 3 Stuttering and Sexuality in Woolf, Melville, Kesey, and Mishima; "shy and stammering"; "organic hesitancy"; "m-m-m-m-mamma."
- "The rusty key"Chapter 4 Stuttering, Violence, and the Politics of Voice in Robert Graves, Philip Roth, and Gail Jones; "vox populi"; "though he do limp and stammer a bit"; "angry because she stutters"; "haltings and erasures"; Chapter 5 Tourettic Speech in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn; "la maladie des tics"; "the world (or my brain
- same thing)"; "to tic freely"; "Those walls of language"; "Tourette's muse was with me"; Conclusion: On Speech Disorders in Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index.