1st Edition
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability Talking Normal
Introduction: Talking Normal 1. The Construction of the Disabled Speaker: Locating Stuttering in Disability Studies Joshua St. Pierre 2. On Prophetic Stammering Herbert Marks 3. Samuel Johnson and the Frailties of Speech Laura Davies 4. "Irate, with no grace of style" : Stuttering, Logorrhea, and Disordered Speech among Male Characters in Luís Vaz de Camões’ The Lusiads (1572) 5. "Stuttutistics": On Speech Disorders in Finnegans Wake Chris Eagle 6. Jackson’s Parrot: Samuel Beckett, Aphasic Speech Automatisms, and Psychosomatic Language Laura Salisbury and Chris Code 7. Staging Aphasia: Jean-Claude Van Itallie’s The Traveller Gene A. Plunka 8. The Poetics of Tourette’s Syndrome: Language, Neurobiology, and Poetry Ronald Schleifer 9. The Visualization of the Twisted Tongue: Portrayals of Stuttering in Film, Television, and Comic Books Jeffrey Johnson
Biography
Christopher Eagle is Research Lecturer in the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
