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Author Berger, James, 1954-

Title The disarticulate : language, disability, and the narratives of modernity / James Berger.

Publication Info. New York : NYU Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (page cm).
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Cultural front
Cultural front (Series)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Contents The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure -- Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity -- Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn -- Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability -- Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience.
Summary Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, "wild" children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders. In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the "disarticulate", those at the edges of language, have, paradoxically, played essential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, the author shows in this study how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical tension, as society confronts the needs and desires of the least of its brothers. Here the author argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable in the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the prevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as disability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures reveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others--From publisher's website
Subject Articulation disorders.
Language disorders.
Anthropological linguistics.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
Articulation Disorders
Language Disorders
Troubles du langage.
Ethnolinguistique.
Langage et langues -- Étude et enseignement.
Civilisation -- 21e siècle.
Troubles d'articulation (Phonétique)
anthropological linguistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Anthropological linguistics
Articulation disorders
Civilization, Modern
Language and languages -- Study and teaching
Language disorders
Talstörningar -- idéhistoriska aspekter.
Språkstörningar -- idéhistoriska aspekter.
Antropologisk lingvistik.
Modernitet.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Other Form: Print version: Berger, James, 1954- Disarticulate 9780814708460 (DLC) 2013049127 (OCoLC)863200910
ISBN 9780814708330 (electronic bk.)
0814708331 (electronic bk.)
9780814708460
0814708463
9780814725306
0814725309
Standard No. 99959747070
AU@ 000053394613
DEBBG BV042794170
DEBSZ 429941714
DEBSZ 493142606
NLGGC 374806330

 
    
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