{"product_id":"epilepsy-metaphors-eleana-vaja-9783837641189","title":"Epilepsy Metaphors: Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature, 1990-2015","description":"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eleana Vaja\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 383764118X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783837641189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Transcript Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.70d","brand":"Eleana Vaja","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49083355627775,"sku":"9783837641189","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/epilepsy-metaphors-eleana-vaja-9783837641189","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}