Amputation in Literature and Film Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss" /
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| Résumé: | XX, 325 p. text |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2021.
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| Édition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Collection: | Literary Disability Studies,
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| Accès en ligne: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74377-2 |
| Format: | Électronique Livre |
Table des matières:
- 1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss”
- Part I: The Politics of Amputation
- 2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London
- 3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives
- 4. Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature
- Part II. Amputations’s Intersections
- 5. “She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps”: Amputation and Embodiment in “The Girl Without Hands”
- 6. Defective Femininity and (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós’s and Luis Buñuel’s Tristana
- 7. “Even at This Late Juncture”: Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment’s Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man
- Part III: Grief and Prosthetic Relations
- 8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee
- 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
- 10. “But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s Anton Reiser
- Part IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability
- 11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de)
- 12. Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s Notalogy
- 13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot.