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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789720003321

Autore

Hall Alice (Literature professor)

Titolo

Disability and Modern Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature / / by A. Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-36090-X

9786613360908

0-230-35547-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004010LIT004020LIT000000

Disciplina

813.5093527

Soggetti

Literature, Modern—20th century

Literature—Philosophy

Culture—Study and teaching

Fiction

African literature

America—Literatures

Twentieth-Century Literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

African Literature

North American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustration; Acknowledgements; 1 Disability and Modern Fiction: Charting New Territory; 2 Tales Told by an Idiot: Disability and Sensory Perception in William Faulkner's Fiction and Criticism; 3 Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Works of Toni Morrison; 4 Dialectics of Dependency: Ageing and Disability in J. M. Coetzee's Later Writing; 5 Disability as Metaphor: The Nobel Prize Lectures of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee; 6 Conclusion: 'You Can't Just Fly on off and Leave a Body'; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and



Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose.