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Narrative prosthesis : disability and the dependencies of discourse /
"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 imag...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2001?], c2000.
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| Colección: | Corporealities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.