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Aesthetics --- Culture --- #SBIB:052.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:309H040 --- #SBIB:316.7C120 --- #SBIB:316.7C140 --- Populaire cultuur algemeen --- Cultuursociologie: algemene en theoretische werken --- Cultuursociologie: cultuur en globale samenlevingen --- Aesthetics. --- Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Social aspects --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics

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How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their “well-formedness” within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Bérubé tells a dramatically different tale, in a compelling account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with disabilities, he shows how ideas about intellectual disability inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies, providing a new and startling way of thinking through questions of time, self-reflexivity, and motive in the experience of reading. Interweaving his own stories with readings of such texts as Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip, Bérubé puts his theory into practice, stretching the purview of the study of literature and the role of disability studies within it.Armed only with the tools of close reading, Bérubé demonstrates the immensely generative possibilities in the ways disability is deployed within fiction, finding in them powerful meditations on what it means to be a social being, a sentient creature with an awareness of mortality and causality—and sentience itself. Persuasive and witty, Michael Bérubé engages Harry Potter fans and scholars of literature alike. For all readers, The Secret Life of Stories will fundamentally change the way we think about the way we read.

Disability studies. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Reading disability. --- Sociology of disability. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- People with disabilities --- Reading disabilities --- Reading retardation --- Retarded readers --- Learning disabilities --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Sociology of disability --- Education --- Sociological aspects --- Study and teaching --- Curricula

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Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Bérubé tells a dramatically different tale, in a compelling account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with disabilities, he shows how ideas about intellectual disability inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies, providing a new and startling way of thinking through questions of time, self-reflexivity, and motive in the experience of reading. Interweaving his own stories with readings of such texts as Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Kingston's The Woman Warrior, and Philip K. Dick's Martian Time-Slip, Bérubé puts his theory into practice, stretching the purview of the study of literature and the role of disability studies within it. Armed only with the tools of close reading, Bérubé demonstrates the immensely generative possibilities in the ways disability is deployed within fiction, finding in them powerful meditations on what it means to be a social being, a sentient creature with an awareness of mortality and causality--and sentience itself. Persuasive and witty, Michael Bérubé engages Harry Potter fans and scholars of literature alike. For all readers, The Secret Life of Stories will fundamentally change the way we think about the way we read.--Publisher website.

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The "what-will-become-of-us genre" is a distinctive feature of the post-World War II literary landscape, for the obvious reason that with World War II humans achieved the power to destroy themselves-and the awful awareness of that power. Perhaps no genre has focused on the collapse of civilization or the destruction on man so insistently and so imaginatively as science fiction. Increasingly, science fiction has been read in ways that speak to environmental threats and the effects of the Anthropocene. In this sense, science fiction, as Michael Berube argues, offers a radical interpretation of the human - one that challenges our species parochialism not only from the perspective of some greater galactic alien or universal intelligence but from the perspective of the world we share from the living creatures we already know. In Ex-Human, Michael Berube, who teaches a very popular science fiction class, discusses a variety of novels and films and how they respond to the question of what will become of us as a species-and whether one can fruitfully imagine the world without us. Writers and works discussed include Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Liu Cixin, Margaret Atwood, The Matrix, 2001, and Blade Runner. Drawing on his interpretations of the novels and films and the responses of other readers and viewers, including his students, Berube provides a lively yet sobering account of how science fiction imagines the end of the planet with our without humans.

Science fiction --- Human beings in literature. --- Future, The, in literature. --- Science fiction films --- Human beings in motion pictures. --- Future, The, in motion pictures. --- History and criticism.

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