Savarese See It Feelingly

Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0273-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Thought in the Act

Ralph James Savarese showcases the voices of autistic readers by sharing their unique insights into literature and their sensory experiences of the world, thereby challenging common claims that people with autism have a limited ability to understand language, to partake in imaginative play, and to generate the complex theory of mind necessary to appreciate literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Savarese, Ralph James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Stephen Kuusisto xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Prologue: River of Words, Raft of Our Conjoined Neurologies 15
1. From a World as Fluid as the Sea 23
2. The Heavens of the Brain 57
3. Andys and Auties 86
4. Finding Her Feet 122
5. Take for Grandin 155
Epilogue 191
Notes 197
Bibliography 247
Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph James Savarese is the author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption and coeditor of three collections, including one on the concept of neurodiversity. He has published widely in academic and creative writing journals. In 2012-13 he was a neurohumanities fellow at Duke University's Institute for Brain Sciences. He teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa.