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Disability and Modern Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature / / by A. Hall
| Disability and Modern Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature / / by A. Hall |
| Autore | Hall Alice (Literature professor) |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2012.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813.5093527 |
| Soggetto topico |
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 |
| ISBN |
1-283-36090-X
9786613360908 0-230-35547-1 |
| Classificazione | LIT004010LIT004020LIT000000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789720003321 |
Hall Alice (Literature professor)
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literature and disability / / Alice Hall
| Literature and disability / / Alice Hall |
| Autore | Hall Alice (Literature professor) |
| Edizione | [1 ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Disciplina |
809/.933561
809.933561 |
| Collana | Literature and Contemporary Thought |
| Soggetto topico |
People with disabilities in literature
Disability studies Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism Sociology of disability |
| ISBN |
1-315-72659-9
1-317-53738-6 1-317-53739-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editors' Preface; 1. Disability Studies Now; Disability Demands a Story; Definitions: Disability at a Critical Juncture; Technologies of Writing and the Body; The Structure of the Book; Further Reading; Bibliography; 2. An Introduction to Disability Studies; Early Activism: Social Campaigns and Environmental Barriers; The Medical and Social Models; The Rise of Disability Studies as a Discipline; Beyond Binaries: New Challenges for Disability Theory; Further Reading; Useful Links; Bibliography
3. Literature and DisabilityThe Cultural Model and the Rise of "Literary Disability Studies"; Empathy; Disability and Metaphor; Intersectionality; Disability and Feminism; Queer Theory; Disability and Postcolonial Theory; Conclusion; Further Reading; Bibliography; 4. Physical Disability and the Novel; Historicising Disability and the Novel; Narrative Prosthesis; Care, Dependency and Coetzee's Slow Man; Conclusion; Further Reading; Bibliography; 5. Deafness and Performance; Definitions; Deafness as a Critical Metaphor and Modality; Further Reading; Bibliography 6. Blindness and the Short StoryBlindness and Literary Tradition; The Language of Blindness; Embodied Sightlessness; Conclusion; Further Reading; Bibliography; 7. Cognitive Difference and Narrative; Labelling Cognitive Impairment; The Sound and the Fury: Memory and Multisensory Narrative; Autism as Metaphor: The Curious Incident of the Dogin the Night-Time; Conclusion; Further Reading; Bibliography; 8. Disability Life Writing; Autobiography and Activism: The Roots of Disability Life Writing; The Literary Memoir and the "Coming Out" Narrative |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910727249903321 |
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Hall Alice (Literature professor)
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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