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A rhetoric of remnants : idiots, half-wits, and other state-sponsored inventions /
In the nineteenth century, language, rather than biology, created what we think of as disability. Much of the rhetorical nature of "idiocy," and even intelligence itself, can be traced to the period when the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse first opened in 1854--memorialized to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, New York :
SUNY Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Rhetoric, Historical Recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School; Minding the Gap; Rhetoric; Rhetoric and Remnants; The Asylum-School, Its Pupils, and the Closing of the Institution; Disability Studies and Feminist Rhetorics; Review of Chapters; 2. "Confusion into Order Changed": The Rhetorics That Govern(ed) Institutionalization ; Introduction; The Noble Asylum; The School; The Prison; The Described and the Counted; The Nameless Idiot; The Visited and the Displayed; Conclusion.
- 3. In Pursuit of the Active Life: The Roots, Rhetoric, and Recursiveness of "Special" (All) Education The Roots of "Special" Education ; All Sensations Are Touch, All Ideas Are Sensations; The Object Method, the Hand, and the Garden System; The Face, the Posture, Walking, Then Thinking; Sensations, Notions, Then Ideas; Imitation as Social Relation; Speech, Language, Listening, and Recitation; After Speech, Drawing, Writing, Then Reading; The Excited Will of the Teacher, the Dull Will of the Pupil; Moving the Will: Order, Social Decorum, and Appearances.
- A Discourse of Rights and Participation in Worldly AffairsThe Farm and the Sewing Room; Burgeoning of the Asylum; A Pedagogy of Sensation, Functional Action, and Participation; 4. In Pursuit of the Underlife of an Archive; Introduction; Layers of Discourse; Overview of the Letters; Letters To Mrs. Thornton; Harmony and Accord; Tension and Discordance; Listening Further; Letters from Families and Pupils: In Praise of the Institution; Listening Even Further; 5. Conclusion: Idiocy-An Old, Worn-Out Story ; The Sheltered Workshop versus the World; The Price of "Education" ; Inscribing Presence.
- Straightening Up and Straightening OutStrength in Variation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.