Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright...
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Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Theorising the Corporeality of Writing -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Narrative Choices, Bodily Condition, and Artistic Subjectivity -- 1.3 Contribution to Scholarly Conversation -- 1.4 Theoretical Approaches and Concepts -- 1.5 The Research Claim and Chapter Summaries -- Chapter 2: Blindness in Borges's Fictions -- 2.1 The Metaphorical Articulation of Blindness -- 2.2 The Dialectic of the Ideal and the Experiential -- 2.3 The Aesthetic Turn to the Experience of Blindness -- Chapter 3: Altered Sensation and Self-Understanding in Borges's Fictions -- 3.1 Durée and Intuition -- 3.2 Disabled Characters and Variations in Subjective Time -- 3.3 Memory, Cyclical Time, and Creativity -- Chapter 4: The Everyday Experience of Growing Blind: Narrative Subjectivity in Hull -- 4.1 The Narrative Form of the Diaries -- 4.2 Life and (Diary) Text -- 4.3 Dreaming and Waking Life -- 4.4 The Self-Constitutive Power of Archetypes -- Chapter 5: Self-Knowledge through Interaction with the World -- 5.1 Knowing the Body, Knowing the Self -- 5.2 Social Interaction and Self-Knowledge -- Chapter 6: The Poetical Subjectivity of Kuusisto -- 6.1 Being Bound with the Minute Threads of Normalcy -- 6.2 Boyhood and Adolescence -- 6.3 Struggles with Normativity: The Adult Years -- Chapter 7: The Narrative Dialectic of Silences and Articulations in the Memoirs of Kuusisto -- 7.1 Questions and Answers Regarding Blindness -- 7.2 The Aesthetic of Listening -- 7.3 The Narrative Dialectic in Kuusisto's Memoirs -- Chapter 8: Artistic Subjectivity, Narrative Choices, and the Author: Their Relation as a Function of Bodily Being -- 8.1 Subjectivity through the Alter Ego, Voice, and Perspective in Borges.
