Cover -- 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 JÃơrgen 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 (1990â#x80;#x93;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 Hustvedtâ#x80;#x99;s Metastable Rhetoric as Transindividuation -- Conclusion
Summary
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 meta
