Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Godden, Richard H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Mittman, Asa Simon (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: The New Middle Ages
• Θέματα: Literature, Medieval.; Literature, Modern.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Medieval Literature.; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.; History of Medieval Europe.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XXVII, 352 p. 19 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030254582
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25458-2

This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of "disability" and "monstrosity" in a timely and necessary intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed "the extraordinary body" is labeled a "monster." This volume explores the origins of this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.