- 288 pages
- English
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About this book
Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. It presents a critical interpretation of selected prose writings by three blind authors: Argentine poet, short story writer, and essayist Jorge Luis Borges; Australian religious educator and diarist John M. Hull; and the American memoirist and poet Stephen Kuusisto.
The volume discusses themes like
- theorising the corporeality of writing
- aesthetic turn to the experience of blindness
- altered sensation and self-understanding
- lived experience of growing blind
- self-knowledge through interaction with the world
- artistic subjectivity, narrative choices, and the 'implied' author
This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of blindness studies, disability studies, arts and aesthetics, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.
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Yes, you can access Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities by Aravinda Bhat in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Literary Collections. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: Theorising the Corporeality of Writing
- 2 Blindness in Borges’s Fictions
- 3 Altered Sensation and Self-Understanding in Borges’s Fictions
- 4 The Everyday Experience of Growing Blind: Narrative Subjectivity in Hull
- 5 Self-Knowledge through Interaction with the World
- 6 The Poetical Subjectivity of Kuusisto
- 7 The Narrative Dialectic of Silences and Articulations in the Memoirs of Kuusisto
- 8 Artistic Subjectivity, Narrative Choices, and the Author: Their Relation as a Function of Bodily Being
- Afterword
- Works Cited
- Index