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Hardcover:
9780415732499 | Routledge, September 5, 2014, cover price $160.00
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9781138216051 | Routledge, August 7, 2016, cover price $59.95
Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of twentieth-century works in English a perspective appreciative of impairment and disability. Author David Bolt examines representations of blindness in more than forty literary works, including writing by Kipling, Joyce, Synge, Orwell, H. G. Wells, Susan Sontag, and Stephen King, shedding light on the deficiencies of these representations and sometimes revealing an uncomfortable resonance with the Anglo-American science of eugenics. What connects these seemingly disparate works is what Bolt calls âthe metanarrative of blindness,â a narrative steeped in mythology and with deep roots in Western culture. Bolt examines literary representations of blindness using the analytical tools of disability studies in both the humanities and social sciences. His readings are also broadly appreciative of personal, social, and cultural aspects of disability, with the aim of bringing literary scholars to the growing discipline of disability studies, and vice versa. This interdisciplinary monograph is relevant to people working in literary studies, disability studies, psychology, sociology, applied linguistics, life writing, and cultural studies, as well as those with a general interest in education and representations of blindness.
Hardcover:
9780472119066 | Univ of Michigan Pr, November 4, 2013, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments.
Paperback:
9780472036547 | Reprint edition (Univ of Michigan Pr, April 28, 2016), cover price $24.95
Hardcover:
9780814292976 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, December 10, 2012), cover price $14.95
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9780720611014 | Peter Owen Ltd, April 1, 2001, cover price $19.95
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9780755102600 | House of Stratus Ltd, January 1, 2001, cover price $8.95
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9780861883905 | Piatkus Books, May 1, 1987, cover price $11.95
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