The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era - Couverture souple

Mjøs, Ole J.; Moe, Hallvard; Syvertsen, Trine; Enli, Gunn Sara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0472052152 ISBN 13 : 9780472052158

Editeur : The University of Michigan Press, 2014

Synopsis

While research on autism has sometimes focused on special talents or abilities, autism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and offers a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive aesthetics of autistic rhetoric and semiotics. Reinterpreting characteristic autistic verbal practices such as repetition in the context of a more widely respected literary canon, Julia Miele Rodas argues that autistic language is actually an essential part of mainstream literary aesthetics, visible in poetry by Walt Whitman and Gertrude Stein, in novels by Charlotte Brontë and Daniel Defoe, in life writing by Andy Warhol, and even in writing by figures from popular culture. Autistic Disturbances pursues these resonances and explores the tensions of language and culture that lead to the classification of some verbal expression as disordered while other, similar expression enjoys prized status as literature. It identifies the most characteristic patterns of autistic expression-repetition, monologue, ejaculation, verbal ordering or list-making, and neologism-and adopts new language to describe and reimagine these categories in aesthetically productive terms. In so doing, the book seeks to redress the place of verbal autistic language, to argue for the value and complexity of autistic ways of speaking, and to invite recognition of an obscured tradition of literary autism at the very center of Anglo-American text culture.

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À propos de l'auteur

Trine Syvertsen is Professor of Media Studies and currently Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway.

Gunn Enli is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway.

Ole J. Mjøs is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.

Hallvard Moe is Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Michigan Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0472052152
• ISBN 13: 9780472052158
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
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• Personne responsable: non disponible