LEADER 03876oam 2200625I 450 001 9910728600803321 005 20180918012107.0 010 $z9781478001300$b(hardcover ;$balk. paper) 010 $z1478001305$b(hardcover ;$balk. paper) 010 $a9781478002734 010 $a1478002735 024 7 $a10.1515/9781478002734 035 $a(CKB)3800000000441463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5514724 035 $a1052784065 035 $a(OCoLC)1139376587 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78926 035 $a(DE-B1597)554486 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781478002734 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930156 035 $a(Perlego)1466233 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000441463 100 $a20180918d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSee it feelingly $eclassic novels, autistic readers, and the schooling of a no-good English professor /$fRalph James Savarese 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (297 pages) 225 1 $aThought in the act 311 08$a1-4780-0273-5 311 08$a1-4780-0130-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue: river of words, raft of our conjoined neurologies -- From a world as fluid as the sea -- The heavens of the brain -- Andys and auties -- Finding her feet -- Take for Grandin. 330 $a?Since the 1940s researchers have been repeating claims about autistic people's limited ability to understand language, to partake in imaginative play, and to generate the complex theory of mind necessary to appreciate literature. In See It Feelingly Ralph James Savarese, an English professor whose son is one of the first nonspeaking autistics to graduate from college, challenges this view.Discussing fictional works over a period of years with readers from across the autism spectrum, Savarese was stunned by the readers' ability to expand his understanding of texts he knew intimately. Their startling insights emerged not only from the way their different bodies and brains lined up with a story but also from their experiences of stigma and exclusion.For Mukhopadhyay Moby-Dick is an allegory of revenge against autism, the frantic quest for a cure. The white whale represents the autist's baffling, because wordless, immersion in the sensory. Computer programmer and cyberpunk author Dora Raymaker skewers the empathetic failings of the bounty hunters in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Autistics, some studies suggest, offer instruction in embracing the nonhuman. Encountering a short story about a lonely marine biologist in Antarctica, Temple Grandin remembers her past with an uncharacteristic emotional intensity, and she reminds the reader of the myriad ways in which people can relate to fiction. Why must there be a norm?Mixing memoir with current research in autism and cognitive literary studies, Savarese celebrates how literature springs to life through the contrasting responses of unique individuals, while helping people both on and off the spectrum to engage more richly with the world." -- Publisher's description. 410 0$aThought in the act. 606 $aAutistic people$xPsychology 606 $aAutistic people$xLanguage 606 $aAutistic people$xEducation 606 $aEnglish fiction$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aAutistic people$xPsychology. 615 0$aAutistic people$xLanguage. 615 0$aAutistic people$xEducation. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a616.85882 676 $a616.85882 700 $aSavarese$b Ralph James$01152240 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910728600803321 996 $aSee it feelingly$93387641 997 $aUNINA