Epilepsy metaphors liminal spaces of individuation in American literature 1990-2015 / [online] :
Eleana Vaja
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Frontmatter Contents Acknowledgments Introduction I. THE FOLKLORE OF EPILEPSY I.A Falling Asleep: The Stigma of Epilepsy in History I.B American Literature: From Stigma to Metaphor? I.C Ableist Metaphors: Historical Motifs and Normalcy II. LIMINAL SPACES OF INDIVIDUATION II.A Jürgen Link and Michel Foucault: Symptomatic Signification of Proto- and Flexmetaphors II.B George Canguilhem: Vital Materiality and Relational Metaphors II.C Gilbert Simondon: Transindividual Metastability and Conceptual Metaphors III. EPILEPSY METAPHORS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE (1990–2015) III.A Metaphor and Society: Proto- and Flexmetaphors and Calculated Individuation III.B Metaphor and Materiality: The Relational Body and Its Electric Individuation III.C Metaphor and Idioms: Siri Hustvedt’s Metastable Rhetoric as Transindividuation Conclusion Bibliography