Disabled Bodies In Early Modern Spanish Literature

Author : Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786948441

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Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature by Encarnación Juárez-Almendros Pdf

This study examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories, concluding that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power.

Author : Encarnación Juárez Almendros
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786940780

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Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature by Encarnación Juárez Almendros Pdf

Disabled Bodies in Early Modern Spanish Literature: Prostitutes, Aging Women and Saints examines the concepts and role of women in selected Spanish discourses and literary texts from the late fifteenth to seventeenth centuries from the perspective of feminist disability theories. This study explores a wide range of Spanish medical, regulatory and moral discourses, illustrating how such texts inherit, reproduce and propagate an amalgam of Western traditional concepts of female embodiment. It goes on to examine concrete representations of deviant female characters, focusing on the figures of syphilitic prostitutes and physically decayed aged women in literary texts such as Celestina, Lozana andaluza and selected works by Cervantes and Quevedo. Finally, an analysis of the personal testimony of Teresa de Avila, a nun suffering neurological disorders, complements the discussion of early modern women's disability. By expanding the meanings of contemporary theories of materiality and the social construction of disability, the book concludes that paradoxically, femininity, bodily afflictions, and mental instability characterized the new literary heroes at the very time Spain was at the apex of its imperial power. Ultimately, as this study shows, the broken female bodies of pre-industrial Spanish literature reveal the cracks in the foundational principles of power and established truths.

Author : David Houston Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814256430

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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England by David Houston Wood Pdf

While early modern selfhood has been explored during the last two decades via a series of historical identity studies involving class, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality, until very recently there has been little engagement with disability and disabled selves in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This omission is especially problematic insofar as representations of disabled bodies and minds serve as some of the signature features in English Renaissance texts. Recovering Disability in Early Modern England explores how recent conversations about difference in the period have either overlooked or misidentified disability representations. It also presents early modern disability studies as a new theoretical lens that can reanimate scholarly dialogue about human variation and early modern subjectivities even as it motivates more politically invested classroom pedagogies. The ten essays in this collection range across genre, scope, and time, including examinations of real-life court dwarfs and dwarf narrators in Edmund Spenser's poetry; disability in Aphra Behn's assessment of gender and femininity; disability humor, Renaissance jest books, and cultural ideas about difference; madness in revenge tragedies; Spenserian allegory and impairment; the materiality of literary blindness; feigned disability in Jonsonian drama; political appropriation of Richard III in the postcommunist Czech Republic; the Book of Common Prayeras textual accommodation for cognitive disability; and Thomas Hobbes's and John Locke's inherently ableist conceptions of freedom and political citizenship.

Author : Sarah Joan Moran,Amanda C. Pipkin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004391352

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Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500 - 1750 by Sarah Joan Moran,Amanda C. Pipkin Pdf

Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women’s experiences of social class, as family members, before the law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings of gender in art and literature. In studies ranging from microhistories to surveys, the book reveals the Low Countries as a remarkable historical laboratory for its topic and points to the opportunities the region holds for future scholarly investigations. Contributors: Martine van Elk, Martha Howell, Martha Moffitt Peacock, Sarah Joan Moran, Amanda Pipkin, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Margit Thøfner, and Diane Wolfthal.

Author : Dr Joshua R Eyler
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475934

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Disability in the Middle Ages by Dr Joshua R Eyler Pdf

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, as well as perceived disabilities such as madness, pregnancy and age. Adopting a ground-breaking new approach to the study of disability in the medieval period, this provocative book will interest medievalists and scholars of disability throughout history.

Author : Nicholas R. Jones,Chad Leahy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000264166

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Pornographic Sensibilities by Nicholas R. Jones,Chad Leahy Pdf

Pornographic Sensibilities stages a conversation between two fields—Medieval/Early Modern Hispanic Studies and Porn Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. The collection offers innovative new approaches to the study of gendered and sexualized bodies in medieval and early modern textual production, including literary and historical documents. The volume’s embrace of the interpretative tools of Porn Studies also inscribes a critical provocation: in what ways can contemporary modes of reading the past serve to freshly illuminate not only the contours of that same past but also the very critical assumptions of the present upon which fields like medieval and early modern Hispanic Studies are built? In this way, Pornographic Sensibilities encourages at once both rigorous historicizations of pre- and early-modern culture, and playful engagement with "presentism," considered here as a critical tool to undress the hidden assumptions of both past and present. This move substantively challenges long-held critical orthodoxies among scholars of pre-Enlightenment periods, for whom the very category of "pornography" itself has often problematically been framed as an anachronism when applied to their work.

Author : Rod Michalko,Tanya Titchkosky
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781551303635

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Rethinking Normalcy by Rod Michalko,Tanya Titchkosky Pdf

The chapters in this book exemplify ways of questioning our collective relations to normalcy, as such relations affect the lives of both disabled and currently non-disabled people."--Pub. desc.

Author : Keri Watson,Timothy W. Hiles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000553451

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The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability by Keri Watson,Timothy W. Hiles Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent. The book engages with questions such as: How are people with disabilities represented in art? How are notions of disability articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and anomaly? How do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert notions of the normative body? Contributors consider the changing role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. This book will be particularly useful for scholars in art history, disability studies, visual culture, and museum studies.

Author : Ria Cheyne
Publisher : Representations: Health, Disability, Culture and Society
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Disabilities in literature
ISBN : 9781789620771

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Disability, Literature, Genre by Ria Cheyne Pdf

Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction's unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective--and effective--power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities.

Author : Sharon L. Snyder,Brenda Jo Brueggemann,Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603296205

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Disability Studies by Sharon L. Snyder,Brenda Jo Brueggemann,Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Pdf

Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as the volume's introduction notes, "the ubiquitous unspoken topic in contemporary culture." The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society. Edited and introduced by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and containing an afterword by Michael Bérubé (author of Life As We Know It), the volume is rich in its cast of characters (including John Bulwer, Teresa de Cartagena, Audre Lorde, Oliver Sacks, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman); in its powerful, authentic accounts of disabled conditions (deafness, blindness, MS, cancer, the absence of limbs); in its different settings (ancient Greece, medieval Spain, Nazi Germany, the modern United States); and in its mix of the intellectual and the emotional, of subtle theory and plainspoken autobiography.

Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780472052714

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The Biopolitics of Disability by David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder Pdf

Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art

Author : John Beusterien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1641890576

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Transoceanic Animals As Spectacle in Early Modern Spain by John Beusterien Pdf

Author : Dale Shuger
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748644643

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Don Quixote in the Archives by Dale Shuger Pdf

A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanityFrom the records of the Spanish Inquisition, Dale Shuger presents a social corpus of early modern madness that differs radically from the 'literary' madness previously studied. Drawing on over 100 accounts of insanity defences, many of which contain statements from a wide social spectrum - housekeepers, nieces, doctors, and barbers - as well as the testimonies of the alleged madmen and women themselves, Shuger argues that Cervantes' exploration of madness as experience is intimately linked to the questions about ethics, reason, will and selfhood that unreason presented for early modern Spaniards. In adapting, challenging and transforming these discourses, Don Quixote investigates spaces of interiority, confronts the limitations of knowledge - of the self and the world - and reflects on the social strategies for diagnosing and dealing with those we cannot understand. Shuger discovers an intimate connection between Cervantes's integration of this discourse of madness and his part in forging the new genre of the European novel.

Author : Oscar E. Vázquez
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271071214

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The End Again by Oscar E. Vázquez Pdf

Explores how definitions of Spanish modernisms from 1874 to 1923 were dependent upon the concepts of degeneration and regeneration. Analyzes the relation between these concepts by examining representations of the body in specific spaces.

Author : Ann Millett-Gallant,Elizabeth Howie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315439990

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Disability and Art History by Ann Millett-Gallant,Elizabeth Howie Pdf

This is the first book of its kind to feature interdisciplinary art history and disability studies scholarship. Art historians have traditionally written about images of figures with impairments and artworks by disabled artists, without integrating disability studies scholarship, while many disability studies scholars discuss works of art, but do not necessarily incorporate art historical research and methodology. The chapters in this volume emphasize a shift away from the medical model of disability that is often scrutinized in art history by considering the social model and representations of disabled figures from a range of styles and periods, mostly from the twentieth century. Topics addressed include visible versus invisible impairments; scientific, anthropological, and vernacular images of disability; and the theories and implications of looking/staring versus gazing. They also explore ways in which art responds to, envisions, and at times stereotypes and pathologizes disability. The insights offered in this book contextualize understanding of disability historically, as well as in terms of medicine, literature, and visual culture.