Foreword by Melanie Yergeau -- Preface: Involuntarity and intentionality -- Chapter one: Introduction -- Chapter two: Articulating autism poetics -- Chapter three: On the surprising elasticity of taxonomical rhetoric -- Chapter four: Nothingness himself -- Chapter four-and-a-half: (Why "Bartleby" doesn't live here) -- Chapter five: Neuroqueer narration in Charlotte Brontés Villette -- Chapter six: The absence of the object: autistic voice and literary architecture in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Chapter seven: Autism and narrative invention in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- Unconclusion: Because the butterfly: autistic infinitudes.
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"The work of Autistic Disturbances is to explore in depth the particularities and possibilities of autistic language. To that end, it draws on literary criticism and clinical theory, but, mindful of the extent to which autistic voices have been silenced, the book seeks to foreground autistic speaking, sometimes in ways that readers may find unexpected or challenging"--
JSTOR
22573/ctv3f40tf
Autistic disturbances.
9780472073948
Theorizing autism poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe
American fiction-- History and criticism.
American prose literature-- History and criticism.