Literary Disability Studies – serie
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29 produkter
Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789–2013
Inbunden, 2017
886 kr
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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 affliction, a tragedy or even a fate …
Disabling Romanticism
Inbunden, 2016
1639 kr
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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 overview of this emerging field. …
Literary and Linguistic Construction of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
No Ordinary Doubt
Inbunden, 2015
635 kr
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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, self-reflective society.
Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives
Inbunden, 2016
391 kr
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As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives aims through its broad range of approaches and focus points to explore this exciting …
Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives
Häftad, 2024
410 kr
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As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives aims through its broad range of approaches and focus points to explore this exciting …
Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Häftad, 2019
1023 kr
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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 lesser-known and canonical plays (by …
Literatures of Madness
Disability Studies and Mental Health
Häftad, 2019
366 kr
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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 create an intersectional …
Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland
Inbunden, 2020
1023 kr
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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. Ranging from Sean O’Casey’s 1939 …
Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland
Häftad, 2021
1023 kr
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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. Ranging from Sean O’Casey’s 1939 …
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Inbunden, 2021
1800 kr
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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 interpreting it in unexpected …
Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Häftad, 2022
1800 kr
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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 interpreting it in unexpected …
Amputation in Literature and Film
Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss"
Av Erik Grayson, Maren Scheurer
Inbunden, 2021
1800 kr
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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 variety of texts, both lesser-known and …
Amputation in Literature and Film
Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss"
Av Erik Grayson, Maren Scheurer
Häftad, 2022
1800 kr
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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 variety of texts, both lesser-known and …
Dramatizing Blindness
Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative
Av Devon Healey
Inbunden, 2021
1322 kr
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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 of higher education, in accessibility …
Dramatizing Blindness
Disability Studies as Critical Creative Narrative
Av Devon Healey
Häftad, 2022
1322 kr
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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 of higher education, in accessibility …
Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing
Crip Enchantments
Inbunden, 2022
1322 kr
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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 effects erupt when non-normative …
Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing
Crip Enchantments
Häftad, 2023
1322 kr
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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 effects erupt when non-normative …
Placing Disability
Personal Essays of Embodied Geography
Av Susannah B. Mintz, Gregory Fraser
Häftad, 2024
336 kr
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Placing Disability presents an international collection of personal essays that address the experience of disability in particular geographical locations. Each chapter engages the question of what it means to be disabled in a specific place, exploring issues of movement, work and play, community …
Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives
Inbunden, 2023
1319 kr
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Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction. Anelise Haukaas applies posthumanist theory to an examination of …
Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives
Häftad, 2024
1322 kr
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Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction. Anelise Haukaas applies posthumanist theory to an examination of …
Neo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability
Interdisciplinary Interventions
Inbunden, 2024
1441 kr
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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 scholarly interest in …
Neo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability
Interdisciplinary Interventions
Häftad, 2025
1441 kr
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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 scholarly interest in …
Literary Neurodiversity Studies
Current and Future Directions
Inbunden, 2025
545 kr
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This book is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the field of literary neurodiversity studies, a growing approach to literary criticism that has emerged in the past decade. Its three parts are designed to: 1) introduce readers both to the general concept of neurodiversity and to current …
Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness
Av Leslie C. Dunn, Avi Mendelson
Inbunden, 2026
1800 kr
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Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern drama, is energized by the belief that madness is a variable concept, situated among a rapidly shifting series of cultural vectors. In addition to investigating the ubiquity of mental …
Sight Loss and the Tethered Self in 21st Century Novels
Av Bethan Jones
Inbunden, 2026
485 kr
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This book explores the representation of visual impairment in 21st century novels. It arises from new research within the growing field of blind studies, engaging with the scholarship of David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, Devon Healey and Heather Tilley, among others. Multiple definitions of …
Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
Invalid Lives
Av Alex Tankard
Inbunden, 2018
1322 kr
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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 the workhouse. Focusing on …
Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature
Invalid Lives
Av Alex Tankard
Häftad, 2019
1319 kr
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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 the workhouse. Focusing on …
Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama
Inbunden, 2018
1023 kr
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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 lesser-known and canonical plays (by …
Literatures of Madness
Disability Studies and Mental Health
Inbunden, 2018
1557 kr
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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 create an intersectional …
