@article{1439009,
      recid = {1439009},
      author = {Grayson, Erik, and Scheurer, Maren,},
      title = {Amputation in literature and film : artificial limbs,  prosthetic relations, and the semiotics of "loss" /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xx, 325 pages).},
      note = {1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of 'Loss'  Part I: The Politics of Amputation2. 'Lame Doings.'  Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker's  Holiday and A Larum for London3. Complicating the Semiotics  of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives4. Stalin's  Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature  Part II. Amputations's Intersections.5. 'She Had Wept So  Long and So Much on the Stumps': Amputation and Embodiment  in 'The Girl Without Hands'.6. Defective Femininity and  (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós's and Luis  Buñuel's Tristana.7. 'Even at This Late Juncture':  Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment's Prosthetic Family  in J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man.- Part III: Grief and Prosthetic  Relations8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with  the Vengeful Amputee9. 'The Blunt Remnant of Something  Whole': Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas  Bernhard's Die Billigesser and Philip Roth's The Plot  Against America10. 'But the Damage ... Lasted': Phantom  Pain and Mourning in Moritz's Anton Reiser Part IV:  Philosophy, Language, Disability11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and  Virtue (de)12. Speech-Amputation-Writing: Philomela's  Notalogy13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity  Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot.},
      abstract = {Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs,  Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of Loss explores  the many ways in which literature and film have engaged  with the subject of amputation. The scholars featured in  this volume draw upon a wide variety of texts, both  lesser-known and canonical, across historical periods and  language traditions to interrogate the intersections of  disability studies with social, political, cultural, and  philosophical concerns. Whether focusing on ancient texts  by Zhuangzi or Ovid, renaissance drama, folktales collected  by the Brothers Grimm, novels or silent film, the chapters  in this volume highlight the dialectics of loss and gain in  narratives of amputation to encourage critical dialogue and  forge an integrated, embodied understanding of experiences  of impairment in which mind and body, metaphor and  materiality, theory and politics are considered as  interrelated and interacting aspects of disability and  ability. Erik Grayson is Associate Professor of English at  Northampton Community College, USA. Previously, he was  Assistant Professor of English at Wartburg College, USA,  and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Luther  College, USA. He has published essays on J.M. Coetzee,  Walter M. Miller, Jr., Don DeLillo, and Jamaica Kincaid,  among others. Maren Scheurer is Researcher and Lecturer in  the Department of Comparative Literature at Goethe  University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is the author of  Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the  Therapeutic Relationship (2019) and co-editor, with Susan  Bainbrigge, of Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter:  Psychoanalysis, Talking Therapies and Creative Practice  (2020). With Aimee Pozorski, she serves as executive  co-editor of Philip Roth Studies.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1439009},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74377-2},
}