Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal

ISBN-13: 9780367867782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 184 str.

Christopher Eagle

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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