Télécharger le livre :  Neo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability
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This book offers new readings and interpretations of the non-normative narratives of ‘freak show’ performers in the Victorian period as they have been reimagined by contemporary fictions, museum exhibitions and other aspects of the heritage experience. The growth of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-12-24
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing
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Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between imaginaries of disability and representations of work, welfare and the nation in twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish literature. Disorienting...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-03
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Dramatizing Blindness
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Dramatizing Blindness: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative engages with the cultural meanings and movements of blindness. This book addresses how blindness is lived in particular contexts—in offices of ophthalmology and psychiatry, in classrooms...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-31
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Amputation in Literature and Film
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Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of “Loss” explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation. The scholars featured in this volume draw upon a wide...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-10
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama
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Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical performances of disability. Proffering an expansive view of early modern disability in performance, the contributors suggest methodologies for finding and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-01-04
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland
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This book is the first to examine life writing and disability in the context of Irish culture. It will be valuable to readers interested in Disability Studies, Irish Studies, autobiography and life writing, working-class literature, popular culture, and new media....

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-06-04
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama
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Why do able-bodied characters fake disability in 40 early modern English plays? This book uncovers a previously unexamined theatrical tradition and explores the way counterfeit disability captivated the Renaissance stage. Through detailed case studies of both...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-08-07
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Literatures of Madness
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Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health brings together scholars working in disability studies, mad studies, feminist theory, Indigenous studies, postcolonial theory, Jewish literature, queer studies, American studies, trauma studies, and comics to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-07-25
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Until the nineteenth century, consumptives were depicted as sensitive, angelic beings whose purpose was to die beautifully and set an example of pious suffering – while, in reality, many people with tuberculosis faced unemployment, destitution, and an unlovely death in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-05
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789–2013
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This book argues that the most interesting depictions of blindness in French fiction are those which call into question and ultimately undermine the prevailing myths and stereotypes of blindness which dominate Western thought. Rather than seeing blindness as an...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-18
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Disabling Romanticism
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This book investigates the presence of disability in British Romantic literature, as subject matter, as metaphorical theme, and as lived experience. It is the first collection of its kind, breaking new ground in re-interpreting key texts and providing a challenging...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-06-09
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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126,59
Télécharger le livre :  The Literary and Linguistic Construction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-04-29
Collection : Literary Disability Studies
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