Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error

by Michael Davidson

Book Overview

The role of disability and deafness in art

Distressing Language is full of mistakes--errors of hearing, speaking, writing, and understanding. Michael Davidson engages the role of disability and deafness in contemporary aesthetics, exploring how physical and intellectual differences challenge our understanding of art and poetry.

Where hearing and speaking are considered normative conditions of the human, what happens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479813842
• ISBN13: 9781479813841
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"