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Autism.
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Autism in literature.
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Descript |
vi, 313 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Note |
Originally published: 2008. |
Contents |
Autism and Representation: A Comprehensive Introduction / Mark Osteen -- I. Clinical Constructions -- 1. No Search, No Subject? Autism and the American Conversion Narrative / James T. Fisher -- 2. Bruno Bettelheim, Autism, and the Rhetoric of Scientific Authority / Katherine DeMaria Severson, James Arnt Aune, and Denise Jodlowski -- 3. Constructing Autism: A Brief Genealogy / Majia Holmer Nadesan -- II. Autistry -- 4. Autism and Modernism: A Genealogical Exploration / Patrick McDonagh -- 5. Autism and the Imagination / Bruce Mills -- 6. Fractioned Idiom: Poetry and the Language of Autism / Kristina Chew --7. Imagination and Awareness of Self in Autistic Spectrum Poets / Ilona Roth -- 8. Human, but More So: What the Autistic Brain Tells Us about the Process of Narrative / Matthew K. Belmonte -- III. Autist Biography -- 9. Crossing Over: Writing the Autistic Memoir / Debra Cumberland -- 10. (M)Othering and Autism: Maternal Rhetorics of Self-Revision / Sheryl Stevenson -- 11. Urinetown: A Chronicle of the Potty Wars / Mark Osteen -- IV. Popular Representations -- 12. Recognizing Jake: Contending with Formulaic and Spectacularized Representations of Autism in Film / Anthony D. Baker -- 13. Hollywood and the Fascination of Autism / Stuart Murray -- 14. Film as a Vehicle for Raising Consciousness among Autistic Peers / Phil Schwarz -- 15. Alterity and Autism: Mark Haddon's Curious Incident in the Neurological Spectrum / James Berger -- 16. Mark Haddon's Popularity and Other Curious Incidents in My Life as an Autistic / Gyasi Burks-Abbott -- Conclusion: Toward an Empathetic Scholarship / Mark Osteen. |
Alt author |
Osteen, Mark, editor.
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ISBN |
9780415806275 |
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0415806275 |
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