Epilepsy Metaphors

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Epilepsy Metaphors

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Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature 1990–2015

Written by Eleana Vaja

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Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability to categorize and examine these foci further. Applying philosophy as well as "hard sciences" (i.e. mathematics, medicine, physics) to disability studies, her study of selected works by Siri Hustvedt, Thom Jones, Reif Larsen, Dennis Mahagin, Audrey Niffenegger, Rodman Philbrick, and Lauren Slater shows how epilepsy metaphors redefine the notion of the "liminal" and the "normal".

ISBN-13: 9783837641189
Publisher: transcript
Imprint: transcript
Publication date: 10 October 2017
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Dimensions: 225 x 148 mm
Language: English