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Epilepsy Metaphors : Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature 1990-2015.
Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational meta.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcipt Verlag,
2017.
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| Colección: | Lettre.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The Folklore of Epilepsy
- I.A Falling Asleep: The Stigma of Epilepsy in History
- I.B American Literature: From Stigma to Metaphor?
- I.C Ableist Metaphors: Historical Motifs and Normalcy
- II. Liminal Spaces of Individuation
- II. A JÃơrgen Link and Michel Foucault: Symptomatic Signification of Proto- and Flexmetaphors
- II. B George Canguilhem: Vital Materiality and Relational Metaphors
- II. C Gilbert Simondon: Transindividual Metastability and Conceptual Metaphors
- III. Epilepsy Metaphors in American Literature (1990â#x80;#x93;2015)III. A Metaphor and Society: Proto- and Flexmetaphors and Calculated Individuation
- III. B Metaphor and Materiality: The Relational Body and Its Electric Individuation
- III. C Metaphor and Idioms: Siri Hustvedtâ#x80;#x99;s Metastable Rhetoric as Transindividuation
- Conclusion