1st Edition
Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement Singing through the Mask
By Gudrun Grabher
Copyright 2019
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
2 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
2 Color & 5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz, and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the face. Drawing on Levinas’ concern with the holistic dimension of the face as an encounter with the other’s... Read more
Introduction; 1. Emmanuel Levinas; 2. Face Value; 3. Facial Disfigurement and Its Repairs; 4. Elephant People; 5. Narratives on Facial Disfigurement; Conclusion
Biography
Gudrun M. Grabher is Full Professor and Chair of the American Studies Department at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She was previously a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and the recipient of a research scholarship to Tokyo, as well as a guest professor at the University of Vienna in Austria and at the University of Notre Dame in the USA. Her main fields of research are American poetry, literature and philosophy, literature and the arts, and medical humanities.
