Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities e-bog

Blind Narrations and Artistic Subjectivities: Corporeal Refractions makes an important contribution to the field of blindness studies by highlighting the centrality of blindness in literary compositions. It presents a critical interpretation of selected prose writings by three blind authors: Argentine poet, short story writer, and essayist Jorge Luis Borges; Australian religious educator and diarist John M. Hull; and the American memoirist and poet Stephen Kuusisto.The volume discusses themes liketheorising the corporeality of writingaesthetic turn to the experience of blindnessaltered sensation and self-understandinglived experience of growing blindself-knowledge through interaction with the worldartistic subjectivity, narrative choices, and the 'implied' authorThis book will be useful for scholars and researchers of blindness studies, disability studies, arts and aesthetics, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.