Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, ""wild"" children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders. In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the 'disarticulate'-those at the edges of language-have, paradoxically, played essential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fu
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (312 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780814708460
Series Statement:
Cultural Front v.8
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1674835
DDC:
362.2
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Disarticulate and Dysarticulate; 1. The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure; 2. Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity; 3. Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn; 4. Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability; 5. Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience; Epilogue: "Language in Dissolution" and "A World without Words"; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N
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