01104cam a22002534a 4500991001061579707536110214s 000 0 ita d3631384637 b13954544-39ule_instDip.to Filologia Ling. e Lett.itaSpazio vissuto e dinamica linguistica :Varietá meridionali in Italia e in situazione di extraterritorialitá /Thomas Krefeld (ed.).Frankfurt am Main ;New York :Lang,2002166 p. :ill., map ;21 cm.VarioLingua,1430-6778 ;Bd. 15Include bibliografia Lingua e linguaggiLingua Italiana Krefeld, Thomasauthorhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut731581.b1395454402-04-1414-02-11991001061579707536LE008 FL.M. (SCL) C 17512008000433321le008-E0.00-l- 02120.i1522967114-02-11Spazio vissuto e dinamica linguistica1441319UNISALENTOle00814-02-11ma -itagw 0004087nam 2200481Ia 450 991102612110332120250915184238.0978147809347310.1515/9781478093473(CKB)32239796600041(DE-B1597)652338(DE-B1597)9781478093473(ODN)ODN0010771451(EXLCZ)993223979660004120240602h20182018 fg |engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSee It Feelingly Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor /Ralph James SavareseDurham :Duke University Press,[2018]©20181 online resource (296 p.)Thought in the Act : 18Frontmatter --contents --Foreword by Stephen Kuusisto --Acknowledgments --introduction --Prologue. River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies --One. From a World as Fluid as the Sea --Two. The Heavens of the Brain --Three. Andys and Auties --Four. Finding Her Feet --Five. Take for Grandin --Epilogue --Notes --Bibliography --Index“We each have Skype accounts and use them to discuss [Moby-Dick] face to face. Once a week, we spread the worded whale out in front of us; we dissect its head, eyes, and bones, careful not to hurt or kill it. The Professor and I are not whale hunters. We are not letting the whale die. We are shaping it, letting it swim through the Web with a new and polished look.”—Tito Mukhopadhyay. Since the 1940s researchers have been repeating claims about autistic people's limited ability to understand language, to partake in imaginative play, and to generate the complex theory of mind necessary to appreciate literature. In 'See It Feelingly,' Ralph James Savarese, an English professor whose son is one of the first nonspeaking autistics to graduate from college, challenges this view. Discussing fictional works over a period of years with readers from across the autism spectrum, Savarese was stunned by the readers' ability to expand his understanding of texts he knew intimately. Their startling insights emerged not only from the way their different bodies and brains lined up with a story, but also from their experiences of stigma and exclusion. For Mukhopadhyay, Moby-Dick is an allegory of revenge against autism, the frantic quest for a cure. The white whale represents the autist's baffling, because wordless, immersion in the sensory. Computer programmer and cyberpunk author Dora Raymaker skewers the empathetic failings of the bounty hunters in Philip K. Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' Autistics, some studies suggest, offer instruction in embracing the nonhuman. Encountering a short story about a lonely marine biologist in Antarctica, Temple Grandin remembers her past with an uncharacteristic emotional intensity, and she reminds the reader of the myriad ways in which people can relate to fiction. Why must there be a norm? Mixing memoir with current research in autism and cognitive literary studies, Savarese celebrates how literature springs to life through the contrasting responses of unique individuals, while helping people both on and off the spectrum to engage more richly with the world.Thought in the act ;18Autistic peopleReading comprehensionAutistic people's writingsLITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralbisacshAutistic people.Reading comprehension.Autistic people's writings.LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.Savarese Ralph Jamesauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1152240Savarese Ralph Jamesfndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B15979911026121103321See it feelingly3387641UNINA