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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Erik Grayson , Maren ScheurerPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.455kg ISBN: 9783030743796ISBN 10: 3030743799 Pages: 325 Publication Date: 12 August 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss” Part I: The Politics of Amputation2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives4. Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature Part II. Amputations’s Intersections.5. “She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps”: Amputation and Embodiment in “The Girl Without Hands”.6. Defective Femininity and (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós’s and Luis Buñuel’s Tristana.7. “Even at This Late Juncture”: Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment’s Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man.- Part III: Grief and Prosthetic Relations8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee9. “The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole”: Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard’s Die Billigesser and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America10. “But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s Anton Reiser Part IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de)12. Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s Notalogy13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice BlanchotReviewsAuthor InformationErik Grayson is Associate Professor of English at Northampton Community College, USA. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of English at Wartburg College, USA, and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Luther College, USA. He has published essays on J.M. Coetzee, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Don DeLillo, and Jamaica Kincaid, among others.Maren Scheurer is Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is the author of Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship (2019) and co-editor, with Susan Bainbrigge, of Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter: Psychoanalysis, Talking Therapies and Creative Practice (2020). With Aimee Pozorski, she serves as executive co-editor of Philip Roth Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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