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

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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Vaja, Eleana,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017]
2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Lettre
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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