Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature

by Jeremy Colangelo

Book Overview

Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area of inquiry in the growing field of literary disability studies. It argues that the construction of ability arises through a process of exclusion and forgetting, in which the depiction of sensory information and epistemological judgment subtly (or sometimes un-subtly)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472132792
• ISBN13: 9780472132799
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"