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Through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen, Colangelo examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the growing field of literary disability studies.

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Tempestuously Able Bodied
  • Clear Indistinct Ideas: Narrative, Sensation, and the Diaphanous Body in Joyce's Ulysses
  • Indolesco Ergo Sum: Language, Compulsion, and Beckett's Existential Pains
  • Abling Self and Other: Self-Sufficiency and Gender in George Egerton
  • Unhoused Capacities: Elizabeth Bowen's Colonial Agency
  • Conclusion: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Absence
  • Bibliography

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 30/11/2021
      ISBN13: 9780472132799, 978-0472132799
      ISBN10: 0472132792
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen, Colangelo examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the growing field of literary disability studies.

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • Abbreviations
      • Introduction: Tempestuously Able Bodied
      • Clear Indistinct Ideas: Narrative, Sensation, and the Diaphanous Body in Joyce's Ulysses
      • Indolesco Ergo Sum: Language, Compulsion, and Beckett's Existential Pains
      • Abling Self and Other: Self-Sufficiency and Gender in George Egerton
      • Unhoused Capacities: Elizabeth Bowen's Colonial Agency
      • Conclusion: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Absence
      • Bibliography

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