a re-reading of twentieth-century Anglophone writing /
David Bolt.
Ann Arbor :
The University of Michigan Press,
[2014]
1 online resource (viii, 167 pages)
Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-161) and index.
An embodied introduction -- 1. Community, controversy, and compromise: The terminology of visual impairment -- 2. Character designation: Normate reductionism and nominal displacement -- 3. Come-to-bed eyes: Ophthalmocentrism, ocularcentrism, and symbolic castration -- 4. "A hand of the blind ventures forth": The grope, the grip, and haptic perception -- 5. Social friction and science fiction: Alterity, avoidance, and constructs of contagiousness -- 6. Visual violation: Staring, panopticism, and the unseen gazer -- 7. Culturally assisted suicide: The mourning and melancholia of blindness deconstructed.
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JSTOR
22573/ctt1d611tn
Metanarrative of blindness
9780472119066
Blind in literature.
Blindness in literature.
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.