Dysfluencies : on speech disorders in modern literature /
"Dysfluencies is the first comprehensive study of how speech disorders are portrayed in modern literature. Tracing the roots of this interaction between literary practice and speech pathology back to the rise of aphasiology in the 1860s, Dysfluencies examines portrayals of disordered speech by...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the neurolinguistic turn
- Aphasia and neurology in Zola and Proust
- Speech disorders and shell shock in World War I writing
- Stuttering and sexuality in Woolf, Melville, Kesey, and Mishima
- Stuttering, violence, and the politics of voice in Graves, Roth, and Jones
- Tourettic speech in Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn
- Conclusion : on speech disorders in theory.