{"product_id":"amputation-in-literature-and-film-artificial-limbs-prosthetic-relations-and-the-semiotics-of-loss-9783030743765","title":"Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of “Loss” \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation. The scholars featured in this volume\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003edraw upon a wide variety of texts, both lesser-known and canonical, across historical periods and language traditions to interrogate the intersections of disability studies with social, political, cultural, and philosophical concerns. Whether focusing on ancient texts by Zhuangzi or Ovid, renaissance drama, folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm, novels or silent film, the chapters in this volume highlight the dialectics of “loss” and “gain” in narratives of amputation to encourage critical dialogue and forge an integrated, embodied understanding of experiences of impairment in which mind and body, metaphor and materiality, theory and politics are considered as interrelated and interacting aspects of disability and ability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Politics of Amputation\u003c\/b\u003e2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in \u003ci\u003eThe Shoemaker’s Holiday \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Larum for London\u003c\/i\u003e3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives4. Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Amputations’s Intersections.\u003c\/b\u003e5. “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 \u003ci\u003eTristana\u003c\/i\u003e.7. “Even at This Late Juncture”: Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment’s Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coetzee’s \u003ci\u003eSlow Man\u003c\/i\u003e.- Part III: Grief and Prosthetic Relations8. \u003ci\u003eThe Penalty\u003c\/i\u003e in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee9. “The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole”: Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard’s \u003ci\u003eDie Billigesser\u003c\/i\u003e and Philip Roth’s \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America\u003c\/i\u003e10. “But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s \u003ci\u003eAnton Reiser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability\u003c\/b\u003e11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (\u003ci\u003ede\u003c\/i\u003e)12. Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s \u003ci\u003eNota\u003c\/i\u003elogy13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51021123223895,"sku":"9783030743765","price":113.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030743765.jpg?v=1750785230","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/amputation-in-literature-and-film-artificial-limbs-prosthetic-relations-and-the-semiotics-of-loss-9783030743765","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}