Disability and Modern Fiction

Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature
2012. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-29209-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Disability and Modern Fiction: Charting New Territory Tales Told by an Idiot: Disability and Sensory Perception in William Faulkner's Fiction and Criticism Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Work of Toni Morrison Dialectics of Dependency: Aging and Disability in J.M.Coetzee's Later Writing Disability as Metaphor: The Nobel Prize Lectures of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee Conclusion: 'You Can't Just Fly on off and Leave a Body' Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ALICE HALL currently works at Université Paris Diderot and she recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. She holds an MPhil in Criticism and Culture and a PhD in Contemporary Literature from the University of Cambridge, UK