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" The metanarrative of blindness : "
David Bolt.
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BL
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878446
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Bolt, David,1966-
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The metanarrative of blindness : : a re-reading of twentieth-century Anglophone writing /\ David Bolt.
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Ann Arbor :: The University of Michigan Press,, [2014]
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Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
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1 online resource (viii, 167 pages)
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0472029584
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: 1306357918
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: 9780472029587
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: 9781306357913
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0472119060
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9780472119066
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-161) and index.
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| Contents
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An embodied introduction -- 1. Community, controversy, and compromise: The terminology of visual impairment -- 2. Character designation: Normate reductionism and nominal displacement -- 3. Come-to-bed eyes: Ophthalmocentrism, ocularcentrism, and symbolic castration -- 4. "A hand of the blind ventures forth": The grope, the grip, and haptic perception -- 5. Social friction and science fiction: Alterity, avoidance, and constructs of contagiousness -- 6. Visual violation: Staring, panopticism, and the unseen gazer -- 7. Culturally assisted suicide: The mourning and melancholia of blindness deconstructed.
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Blind in literature.
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Blindness in literature.
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Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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People with disabilities in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Blind in literature.
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Blindness in literature.
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Literature, Modern.
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People with disabilities in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- People with Disabilities.
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809/.9335271
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PN56.B6B65 2014eb
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