Literature and Disability

Literature and Disability
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : 9781317537380
ISBN-13 : 1317537386
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Book Synopsis Literature and Disability by : Alice Hall

Download or read book Literature and Disability written by Alice Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this poses. The author explores: key debates and issues in disability studies today different forms of impairment, with the aim of showing the diversity and ambiguity of the term "disability" the intersection between literary critical approaches to disability and feminist, post-colonial, and autobiographical writing genre and representations of disability in relation to literary forms including novels, short stories, poems, plays and life writing This volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview of literary critical approaches to disability representation.


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