Epilepsy Metaphors : : Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature 1990-2015 / / Eleana Vaja.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017]
2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Lettre
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction --   |t I. The Folklore of Epilepsy --   |t I.A Falling Asleep: The Stigma of Epilepsy in History --   |t I.B American Literature: From Stigma to Metaphor? --   |t I.C Ableist Metaphors: Historical Motifs and Normalcy --   |t II. Liminal Spaces of Individuation --   |t II.A Jürgen Link and Michel Foucault: Symptomatic Signification of Proto- and Flexmetaphors --   |t II.B George Canguilhem: Vital Materiality and Relational Metaphors --   |t II.C Gilbert Simondon: Transindividual Metastability and Conceptual Metaphors --   |t III. Epilepsy Metaphors in American Literature (1990–2015) --   |t III.A Metaphor and Society: Proto- and Flexmetaphors and Calculated Individuation --   |t III.B Metaphor and Materiality: The Relational Body and Its Electric Individuation --   |t III.C Metaphor and Idioms: Siri Hustvedt’s Metastable Rhetoric as Transindividuation --   |t Conclusion --   |t Bibliography 
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