Amputation in literature and film : artificial limbs, prosthetic relations, and the semiotics of "loss" /: artificial limbs, prosthetic relations, and the semiotics of "loss". (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Erik Grayson, Maren Scheurer.
• Editors: Grayson, Erik; Scheurer, Maren
• Contents: 1. 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 Blanchot.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.933561; Amputation in literature; Amputation in motion pictures; Amputees in literature; Amputees in motion pictures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030743772
• Related ISBNs: 9783030743765
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