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Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, this book shows how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge.

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[T]he book is a valuable contribution to disability studies both for its speculations and specific readings. It is a very thoughtful and thought-filled work, nuanced and wide-ranging, which should have an effect on the field. * Critical Inquiry *

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Disarticulate and Dysarticulate 1. The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure 2. Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity 3. Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn 4. Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability 5. Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience Epilogue: "Language in Dissolution" and "A World without Words" Notes Works Cited Index About the Author

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      Publisher: New York University Press
      Publication Date: 23/05/2014
      ISBN13: 9780814708460, 978-0814708460
      ISBN10: 0814708463
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, this book shows how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge.

      Trade Review
      [T]he book is a valuable contribution to disability studies both for its speculations and specific readings. It is a very thoughtful and thought-filled work, nuanced and wide-ranging, which should have an effect on the field. * Critical Inquiry *

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: Disarticulate and Dysarticulate 1. The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure 2. Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity 3. Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn 4. Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability 5. Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience Epilogue: "Language in Dissolution" and "A World without Words" Notes Works Cited Index About the Author

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