Title Disability and modern fiction : Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the nobel prize for literature / Alice Hall

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) Contents List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Disability and Modern Fiction: Charting New Territory -- Tales Told by an Idiot: Disability and Sensory Perception in William Faulkner's Fiction and Criticism -- Foreign Bodies: Disability and Beauty in the Work of Toni Morrison -- Dialectics of Dependency: Aging and Disability in J.M. Coetzee's Later Writing -- Disability as Metaphor: The Nobel Prize Lectures of Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee -- Conclusion: 'You Can't Just Fly on off and Leave a Body' -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary Disability and Modern Fiction explores shifting definitions and representations of physical and mental impairment in 20th and 21st century culture through a focus on the work of William Faulkner, Toni Morrison and JM Coetzee. Taking as its starting point Virginia Woolf's essay 'On Being Ill' (1930), the book argues that focusing on literary representations of disability opens up new critical categories for the analysis of fiction. Through consideration of their work as critics and Nobel Prize-winning public intellectuals, as well as authors, the book proposes new ways of reading Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee in relation to one another, and in doing so highlights the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose to readers Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Coetzee, J. M., 1940- fast Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 fast Morrison, Toni fast Subject Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism People with disabilities in literature. Mind and body in literature. Nobel Prize winners. Body and soul in literature. Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. Literature. Body and soul in literature Fiction Mind and body in literature Nobel Prize winners People with disabilities in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230355477 0230355471

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