Epilepsy Metaphors: Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature, 1990-2015 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783837641189)

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Epilepsy Metaphors: Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature, 1990-2015

$40.00

Epilepsy Metaphors: Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature, 1990-2015

$40.00
Format: Paperback
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From 1990 through 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors that tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability to categorize and examine these foci further. Applying philosophy as well as "hard sciences" (i.e., mathematics, medicine, physics) to disability studies, her study of selected works by Siri Hustvedt, Thom Jones, Reif Larsen, Dennis Mahagin, Audrey Niffenegger, Rodman Philbrick, and Lauren Slater shows how epilepsy metaphors redefine the notion of the "liminal" and the "normal."

Author: Eleana Vaja
ISBN-10: 383764118X
ISBN-13: 9783837641189
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.70d
By Eleana Vaja
By Eleana Vaja
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Eleana Vaja has taught American literary and cultural studies at the University of Cologne. Her research interests include U.S. American literature, philosophy, and disability studies.

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