Metanarrative of Blindness - A Re-Reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing

Informationen zum Autor David Bolt is Lecturer in Education Studies at Liverpool Hope University! UK and the founding editor of the Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. Klappentext Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature! literary criticism rarely engages the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of 20th-century works in English a perspective appreciative of impairment and disability. Zusammenfassung Sheds new light on literary representations of blindness from a disability studies perspective

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• Authors: David Bolt
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.2013
• EAN: 9780472119066
• ISBN: 978-0-472-11906-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Corporealities: Discourses of; Corporealities: Discourses of Disability; Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies