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" Narrative prosthesis : "
David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
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BL
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706776
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b528965
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| Main Entry
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Mitchell, David T.,1962-
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| Title & Author
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Narrative prosthesis : : disability and the dependencies of discourse /\ David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, [2001?]
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, ©2000
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| Series Statement
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Corporealities
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xvii, 211 pages ;; 24 cm
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0472067486
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: 0472097482
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: 9780472067480
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: 9780472097487
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index
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| Contents
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Disability as narrative supplement -- Representation and its discontents: the uneasy home of disability in literature and film -- Narrative prosthesis, and the materiality of metaphor -- Montaigne's "Infinities of Formes: and Nietzsche's "Higher Men" -- Performing deformity: The making and unmaking of Richard III -- The language of prosthesis in Moby-Dick -- Modernist freaks and postmodern geeks: literary contortions of the disabled body
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"Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare's Richard III, Melville's Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Katherine Dunn's self-induced freaks in Geek Love." -- Publisher's description
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Literature, Modern-- History and criticism
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People with disabilities in literature
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Disabled Persons-- history
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Literature-- history
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| Dewey Classification
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809/.933520816
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PN56.5.H35M58 2000
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Snyder, Sharon L.,1963-
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