Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (324 pages)
Disciplina	809.933561
Collana	Literary disability studies
Soggetto topico	Medicine in literature
ISBN	3-030-74377-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
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Autore	Robin Anne <1966->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Longo
Soggetto topico	Medicine in literature
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	fre
Altri titoli varianti	À la recherche de l'équilibre
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910733776403321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Bellevue Literary Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (320 p.)
Disciplina	610
Altri autori (Persone)	OfriDanielle
Soggetto topico	Medicine in literature Medicine
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-48864-3 9786612488641 1-934137-25-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: INITIATION; PATIENTS; DOCTORS; COMING OF AGE; PART II CONFLICT: GRAPPLING WITH ILLNESS; DISABILITY; COPING; MADNESS; CONNECTIONS; FAMILY; PART III: DENOUEMENT; MORTALITY; DEATH; LOSS; AFTERMATH; About the Contributors
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455096403321

Autore	Stanford Ann Folwell
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (282 p.)
Disciplina	813/.509356
Collana	Studies in social medicine
Soggetto topico	American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Medicine in literature Women and literature - United States - History - 20th century American fiction - Minority authors - History and criticism American fiction - Women authors - History and criticism Ethnic groups in literature Human body in literature Minorities in literature Sick in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8078-5480-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910449674303321

Autore	Chekhov Anton Pavlovich <1860-1904.>
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Kent, Ohio : , : Kent State University Press, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xxv, 199 pages)
Disciplina	891.73/3
Altri autori (Persone)	CoulehanJohn L. <1943->
Collana	Literature and medicine
Soggetto topico	Physicians Medical fiction Medicine in literature
ISBN	1-61277-376-1 1-61277-377-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intrigues (1883) -- Malingerers (1885) -- Excellent people (1886) -- Anyuta (1886) -- The doctor (1886) -- Darkness (1887) -- Enemies (1887) -- The examining magistrate (1887) -- An awkward business (1888) -- The princess (1889) -- A nervous breakdown (1889) -- Ward no. 6 (1892) -- The grasshopper (1892) -- The head gardener's story (1894) -- Ionitch (1898) -- A doctor's visit (1898).
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910786369703321