TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vaja,Eleana
TI  - Epilepsy Metaphors: Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature 1990-2015 
T2  - Lettre
SN  - 9783839441183
AV  - PS225 .V35 2017
U1  - 810.90054 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Bielefeld
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Epilepsy in literature
KW  - Individuation (Psychology) in literature
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Body
KW  - Conceptual Metaphors
KW  - Disability Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Metastability
KW  - Normativity
KW  - Siri Hustvedt
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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"
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