Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability

Talking Normal
Herausgeber: Eagle, Christopher

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780367867782
• ISBN-10: 0367867788
• Artikelnr.: 69892864

Autorenporträt

Christopher Eagle is Research Lecturer in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Talking Normal 1. The Construction of the Disabled Speaker:
Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies Joshua St. Pierre 2. On Prophetic
Stammering Herbert Marks 3. Samuel Johnson and the Frailties of Speech
Laura Davies 4. "Irate, with no grace of style" : Stuttering, Logorrhea,
and Disordered Speech among Male Characters in Luís Vaz de Camões' The
Lusiads (1572) 5. "Stuttutistics": On Speech Disorders in Finnegans Wake
Chris Eagle 6. Jackson's Parrot: Samuel Beckett, Aphasic Speech
Automatisms, and Psychosomatic Language Laura Salisbury and Chris Code 7.
Staging Aphasia: Jean-Claude Van Itallie's The Traveller Gene A. Plunka 8.
The Poetics of Tourette's Syndrome: Language, Neurobiology, and Poetry
Ronald Schleifer 9. The Visualization of the Twisted Tongue: Portrayals of
Stuttering in Film, Television, and Comic Books Jeffrey Johnson