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001 2013020496
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008 130618s2014 miu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2013020496
020 $a9780472119066 (cloth : acid-free paper)
020 $z9780472029587 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN56.B6$bB65 2014
082 00 $a809/.9335271$223
100 1 $aBolt, David,$d1966-
245 14 $aThe metanarrative of blindness :$ba re-reading of twentieth-century Anglophone writing /$cDavid Bolt.
264 1 $aAnn Arbor :$bThe University of Michigan Press,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 167 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCorporealities: Discourses of Disability
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pges 155-161) and index.
505 0 $aAn embodied introduction -- 1. Community, controversy, and compromise: The terminology of visual impairment -- 2. Character designation: Normate reductionism and nominal displacement -- 3. Come-to-bed eyes: Ophthalmocentrism, ocularcentrism, and symbolic castration -- 4. "A hand of the blind ventures forth": The grope, the grip, and haptic perception -- 5. Social friction and science fiction: Alterity, avoidance, and constructs of contagiousness -- 6. Visual violation: Staring, panopticism, and the unseen gazer -- 7. Culturally assisted suicide: The mourning and melancholia of blindnedd deconstructed.
650 0 $aLiterature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBlind in literature.
650 0 $aBlindness in literature.
650 0 $aPeople with disabilities in literature.