Literary Criticism and Theory: Showing 1 to 12 of 12 results where the Subjects is Disability Studies sorted by Newest to oldest

Beholding Disability in Renaissance England

By Allison P. Hobgood
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

How disability and ableism took shape in Renaissance England

Monstrous Kinds

Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability

By Elizabeth Bearden
Subjects: Disability Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Elucidates how Renaissance writers used monstrosity to imagine what we now call disability

Autistic Disturbances

Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe

By Julia Miele Rodas
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, American Literature
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Finds and investigates the resonances between autistic speech patterns and literary texts

Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability

By Shelley Lynn Tremain
Subjects: Philosophy, Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Addresses misrepresentations of Foucault’s work within feminist philosophy and disability studies, offering a new feminist philosophy of disability

Academic Ableism

Disability and Higher Education

By Jay T. Dolmage
Subjects: Disability Studies, American Studies, Education, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone

Foucault and the Government of Disability

Enlarged and Revised Edition

By Shelley Lynn Tremain
Subjects: Disability Studies, Philosophy, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

An up-to-date edition of a foundational collection

Narrative Prosthesis

Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

By David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function

The End of Normal

Identity in a Biocultural Era

By Lennard Davis
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Provocative essays that challenge notions of the “normal” in the new century

Mammographies

The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives

By Mary K. DeShazer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Uncovers the lived experience of breast cancer through autobiographical and photographic narratives

Signifying Bodies

Disability in Contemporary Life Writing

By G. Thomas Couser
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability?

Disability Theory

By Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Boldly rethinks theoretical questions of the last thirty years from the vantage point of disability studies

Revels in Madness

Insanity in Medicine and Literature

By Allen Thiher
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present

University of Michigan Press

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