Amputation in Literature and Film (Hardcover)

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Studies amputation as an experience of disability and as a literary deviceConsiders the relationship between amputation and prosthetics, a central metaphor of the discourse in disability studiesIncludes a further reading list

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. 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.