Imagining autism : fiction and stereotypes on the spectrum /
"A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Loftis's groundbreaking study turns to literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover wha...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press
2015.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt17kmw55 |
Obsah:
- The autistic detective: Sherlock Holmes and his legacy
- The autistic savant: Pygmalion, Saint Joan, and the neurodiversity movement
- The autistic victim: Of mice and men and Flowers for Algernon
- The autistic gothic: To kill a mockingbird, The glass menagerie, and The sound and the fury
- The autistic child narrator: Extremely loud and incredibly close and The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
- The autistic label: diagnosing (and undiagnosing) The girl with the dragon tattoo
- Afterword.