Stutter

by Marc Shell

Book Overview

One person can't help stuttering. The other can't help laughing. And in the way one bodily betrayal of better intentions mirrors the other, we find ourselves in the grey area where mind and body connect - and, at the damnedest moments, disconnect. In a book that explores the phenomenon of stuttering from its practical and physical aspects to its historical profile to its existential implications, Marc Shell plumbs the depths of this murky region between will and flesh, intention and expression, idea and word. Looking into the difficulties encountered by people who stutter - as do fifty million world-wide - Shell shows that, however solitary stutterers may be in their quest for normalcy, they share a kinship with many other speakers, both impeded and fluent. Stutter takes us back to a time when stuttering was believed to be 'diagnosis-induced, ' then on to the complex mix of physical and psychological causes that were later discovered

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674019377
• ISBN13: 9780674019379
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"