Deafening Modernism Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature

Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity-based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture, hi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sanchez, Rebecca, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [2015]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Cultural front (Series)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Impersonality: Tradition and the Inescapable Body
  • 2. Primitivism: Communicative Norms and the Ethics of the Story
  • 3. Difficulty: Juxtaposition, Indeterminacy, and the Linguistics of Simultaneity
  • 4. The Image: Cinematic Poetics and Deaf Vision
  • Epilogue: The Textual Body
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author