Overview
- Studies amputation as an experience of disability and as a literary device
- Considers the relationship between amputation and prosthetics, a central metaphor of the discourse in disability studies
- Includes a further reading list
Part of the book series: Literary Disability Studies (LIDIST)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Philosophy, Language, Disability
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—Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Amputation in Literature and Film
Book Subtitle: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss"
Editors: Erik Grayson, Maren Scheurer
Series Title: Literary Disability Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74377-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74376-5Published: 11 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74379-6Published: 12 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74377-2Published: 10 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2947-7409
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7417
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 325
Topics: Comparative Literature, Fiction, Cultural Studies, Global Cinema and TV, Philosophy of Medicine