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Reviewing Blindness in French Fiction, 1789-2013 /

Through thoughtful juxtapositions in modern French fiction, Thompson posits text as both a material and critical encounter in order to celebrate blindness and topple stereotypes. Masterful analyses demonstrate the eloquence of blind narrative in cultivating the pleasure of the unexpected and shaping...

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Main Authors: Thompson, Hannah
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Literary Disability Studies
Subjects:
Literature
Literature, Modern > 18th century
Literature, Modern > 19th century
Fiction
European literature
Eighteenth-Century Literature
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43511-8
Summary: Through thoughtful juxtapositions in modern French fiction, Thompson posits text as both a material and critical encounter in order to celebrate blindness and topple stereotypes. Masterful analyses demonstrate the eloquence of blind narrative in cultivating the pleasure of the unexpected and shaping representation in Western traditions. Tammy Berberi, Associate Professor of French, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(IX,176pages).
ISBN: 9781137435118
Index Number: PN1
CLC: I565.074
Contents: Introduction -- Chapter One: The French Metanarrative of Blindness -- Chapter Two: The Creative Look of the Blind Seer -- Chapter Three: Non-Visual Language and Descriptive Blindness -- Chapter Four: Male Desire and the Paradox of Blind Sexuality -- Chapter Five: Silenced Sexualities: Listening to the Voice of the Blind Woman -- Chapter Six: Blind Assassins -- Chapter Seven: Science, Fantasy and (In)Visible Blindness -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.-.

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