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Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal

Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal

Eagle, Christopher

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0415823048
ISBN13: 9780415823043
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 8 2013
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The book's main focus is on the development of an awareness of speech pathology in the literary imaginary from the late-eighteenth century to the present, studying the novel, drama, epic poetry, lyric poetry, children's literature, autobiography and autopathography, and clinical case studies and guidebooks on speech therapy. The volume addresses a growing interest, both in popular culture and the humanities, regarding the portrayal of conditions such as stuttering, aphasia and mutism, along with the status of the Self in relation to those conditions. Since speech pathologies are neither illnesses nor outwardly physical disabilities, critical studies of their representation have tended to occupy a liminal position in relation to other discourses such as literary and cultural theory, and even disability studies. One of the primary aims of this collection is to address this marginalization, and to position a cultural criticism of speech pathology within literary studies.

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