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%T Epilepsy metaphors liminal spaces of individuation in American literature 1990-2015

%A Vaja, Eleana

%I transcript-Verlag

%@ 9783839441183

%K American literature 20th century History and criticism

%K American literature 21st century History and criticism

%K Epilepsy in literature

%K Individuation (Psychology) in literature

%K American Studies.

%K Body.

%K Conceptual Metaphors.

%K Disability St.

%K Disability Studies.

%K Literary Studies.

%K Literature.

%K Medicine.

%K Metastability.

%K Normativity.

%K Siri Hustvedt.

%K LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

%K Hochschulschrift

%K USA

%K Literatur

%K Epilepsie Motiv

%K Geschichte 1990-2015

%K Amerikanisches Englisch

%D [2017]

%X Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- I. The Folklore of Epilepsy -- -- I.A Falling Asleep: The Stigma of Epilepsy in History -- -- I.B American Literature: From Stigma to Metaphor? -- -- I.C Ableist Metaphors: Historical Motifs and Normalcy -- -- II. Liminal Spaces of Individuation -- -- II.A Jürgen Link and Michel Foucault: Symptomatic Signification of Proto- and Flexmetaphors -- -- II.B George Canguilhem: Vital Materiality and Relational Metaphors -- -- II.C Gilbert Simondon: Transindividual Metastability and Conceptual Metaphors -- -- III. Epilepsy Metaphors in American Literature (1990–2015) -- -- III.A Metaphor and Society: Proto- and Flexmetaphors and Calculated Individuation -- -- III.B Metaphor and Materiality: The Relational Body and Its Electric Individuation -- -- III.C Metaphor and Idioms: Siri Hustvedt’s Metastable Rhetoric as Transindividuation -- -- Conclusion -- -- Bibliography

%C transcript-Verlag

%C Bielefeld

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