Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of Loss by Grayson, Erik

Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of Loss (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030743765)

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Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of Loss by Grayson, Erik

Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of Loss

$169.99
Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of Loss by Grayson, Erik

Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of Loss

$169.99
Format: Hardcover
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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 canonical, across historical periods and language traditions to interrogate the intersections of disability studies with social, political, cultural, and philosophical concerns. Whether focusing on ancient texts by Zhuangzi or Ovid, renaissance drama, folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm, novels or silent film, the chapters in this volume highlight the dialectics of "loss" and "gain" in narratives of amputation to encourage critical dialogue and forge an integrated, embodied understanding of experiences of impairment in which mind and body, metaphor and materiality, theory and politics are considered as interrelated and interacting aspects of disability and ability.

Author: Erik Grayson
ISBN-10: 3030743764
ISBN-13: 9783030743765
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2021
Pages: 325
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d
By Erik Grayson
By Erik Grayson
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Erik Grayson is Associate Professor of English at Northampton Community College, USA. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of English at Wartburg College, USA, and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Luther College, USA. He has published essays on J.M. Coetzee, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Don DeLillo, and Jamaica Kincaid, among others.

Maren Scheurer is Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is the author of Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship (2019) and co-editor, with Susan Bainbrigge, of Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter: Psychoanalysis, Talking Therapies and Creative Practice (2020). With Aimee Pozorski, she serves as executive co-editor of Philip Roth Studies.

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