TY - BOOK ID - 118233884 TI - Literature and disability PY - 2016 SN - 1315726599 1317537386 1317537394 041563220X 0415632218 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - People with disabilities in literature. KW - Disability studies. KW - Literature, Modern KW - Sociology of disability. KW - History and criticism. KW - Disabilities KW - Sociology of disablement KW - Sociology of impairment KW - People with disabilities KW - Sociology of disability KW - Education KW - Handicapped in literature KW - Physically handicapped in literature KW - Sociological aspects KW - Study and teaching KW - Curricula UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118233884 AB - "Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of impairment and the representation of disability can provide new approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this poses. The author explores: - key debates and issues in disability studies today - different forms of impairment, with the aim of showing the diversity and ambiguity of the term "disability" - the intersection between literary critical approaches to disability and feminist, post-colonial, and autobiographical writing - genre and representations of disability in relation to literary forms including novels, short stories, poems, plays and life writing. This volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview of literary critical approaches to disability representation" -- ER -