TY - BOOK AU - VAJA,Eleana TI - Epilepsy metaphors: liminal spaces of individuation in American literature 1990-2015 / T2 - Lettre SN - 9783839441183 PY - 2017/// PB - Transcript KW - UDJG KW - DE-Limba și literatura engleză KW - resursă online N1 - Bibliografie; 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 UR - https://www-degruyter-com.am.e-nformation.ro/document/doi/10.14361/9783839441183/html ER -