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008			190930b2018 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781107458130
082			_a809.9335 BAR-C
100			_aedited by Barker, Clare
245			_aThe Cambridge companion to literature and disability / _cedited by Clare Barker and Stuart Murray
260			_aUnited Kingdom _bCambridge University Press _c2018
300			_a254 p.
365			_aGBP _b22.99.
500			_aThis Companion analyzes the representation of disability in literatures in English, including American and postcolonial writing, across all major time periods and through a variety of critical approaches. Through the alternative ideas of mind and embodiment generated by physiological and psychological impairments, an understanding of disability narrative changes the way we read literature. With contributions from major figures in literary disability studies, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability covers a wide range of impairments, including cognitive difference, neurobehavioral conditions, and mental and chronic illnesses. This book shows how disability demands innovation in literary form and aesthetics, challenges the notion of a human 'norm' in the writing of character, and redraws the ways in which writing makes meaning of the broad spectrum of humanity. It will be a key resource for students and teachers of disability and literary studies.
650			_aPeople with disabilities in literature
700			_aMurray, Stuart