Amputation in literature and film : artificial limbs, prosthetic relations, and the semiotics of "loss" / / Erik Grayson, Maren Scheurer, editors

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.933561
• Soggetto topico: Medicine in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): GraysonErik; ScheurerMaren
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of "Loss" -- References -- Part I: The Politics of Amputation -- Chapter 2: "Lame Doings": Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker's Holiday and A Larum for London -- Soldiers and Veterans in Elizabethan England -- The Shoemaker's Holiday -- A Larum for London -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Complicating the Semiotics of Loss: Gender, Power, and Amputation Narratives -- Introduction -- Power, Control, and Embodied Resistance -- Medical Ethics and Gendered Control -- War Bodies and Amputatory Affection -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Stalin's Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature -- The War Invalid as Hero and Legend: Boris Polevoi's The Story of a Real Man (1946) -- The War Invalid as Soviet Job: Oleg Rossiyanov's Autobiography "The War Was Long Ago" (2007) -- The War Invalid as Pariah: Eduard Kochergin's Angel's Puppet (2003) -- Conclusion -- References -- Discussion: The Politics of Amputation -- Part II: Amputation's Intersections -- Chapter 5: "She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps": Amputation and Embodiment in "The Girl Without Hands" -- References -- Chapter 6: Defective Femininity and (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós's and Luis Buñuel's Tristana -- Benito Pérez Galdós's Don Juan and His Paper Doll -- Tristana's Aspirations of Honest Liberty and Love -- Coping with Bodily Disease -- The Semiotics of Amputation and Defectiveness -- Buñuel's Version of Tristana's Revenge -- The Phallic Imagery of the Prosthesis -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: "Even at This Late Juncture": Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment's Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man -- References -- Discussion: Amputation's Intersections -- Reference. ; Part III: Grief and Prosthetic Relations -- Chapter 8: The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee -- References -- Chapter 9: "The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole": Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard's Die Billigesser and Philip Roth's The Plot Against America -- "The Higher State of Crippledom" -- "The Great Supporting Role" -- References -- Chapter 10: "But the Damage ... Lasted": Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz's Anton Reiser -- An Aborted Amputation -- Relational Self -- Displaying Wounds -- Phantoms in Mourning -- References -- Discussion: Grief and Prosthetic Relations -- Reference -- Part IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability -- Chapter 11: Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de) -- Stories About Virtue, Fate, and Transformation -- Stories About Avoidance of Harm and Being Useless -- Virtue Stories Involving Amputees -- References -- Chapter 12: Speech-Amputation-Writing: Philomela's Notalogy -- The Anatomy of Culture -- Phonocentrism and Thanatography -- Delinguation and Grammatology -- Outlook: Shakespeare's Renaissance of the Mouth -- References -- Chapter 13: (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot -- What Is BIID? -- Fragmentation: BIID and the Text-Body -- There's Nothing Here: Blanchot and BIID -- References -- Discussion: Philosophy, Language, Disability -- Further Reading -- Literature -- Film and Television -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Amputation in Literature and Film
• ISBN: 3-030-74377-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495192903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literary disability studies.