TY - BOOK ID - 65605374 TI - The prosthetic imagination PY - 2020 SN - 9781108836487 1108836488 9781108871297 1108871291 9781108819121 1108877583 1108872646 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Realism in literature KW - Mimesis in literature KW - Human body in literature KW - Humanity in literature KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - 82-3 KW - 82.04 KW - 82.04 Literaire thema's KW - Literaire thema's KW - 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie KW - Proza. Fictie. Narratologie KW - 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative KW - Fiction. Prose narrative KW - Body, Human, in literature KW - Human figure in literature KW - Representation (Literature) KW - Imitation in literature KW - Neorealism (Literature) KW - Magic realism (Literature) KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Literary movements KW - History and criticism KW - Fiction. KW - Human body in literature. KW - Humanity in literature. KW - Mimesis in literature. KW - Modernism (Literature). KW - Realism in literature. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65605374 AB - "What is the relation between the mimetic and the prosthetic? How does the process of making pictures or likenesses of reality (in paint, in film, in prose) relate to our fashioning of artificial bodies, the manufacturing of the plastic forms with which we augment and enhance our naked extension into the world, what Freud calls the mere 'inch of nature' which we are given? This question was given a rather palpable form for me when, as part of my initial preparation for writing this book, I spent some time with a prosthetic surgeon who specialises in facial prosthetics. The surgeon - Charles - took me to a room in which there were a number of wooden cabinets, where he stored facial prostheses in drawers. He wanted to show me some of them, he said, in order to give me a sense of the range of different kinds of prostheses he made. He had these faces in his possession because, as his patients aged or grew, he regularly updated their prostheses"-- ER -