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03366aam a2200445 i 4500 001 331D4FFC6B5611E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 131217t20142014nyu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2013049127 020 $a 0814708463 (hardback) 020 $a 9780814708460 (hardback) 020 $a 0814725309 (paper) 020 $a 9780814725306 (paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)863200910 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d NSB $d UKMGB $d CDX $d YUS $d OCLCF $d NLM $d XII $d SZR $d OCL $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a RC424.7 B45 2014 100 1 $a Berger, James, $d 1954- $e author. 245 14 $a The disarticulate : $b language, disability, and the narratives of modernity / $c James Berger. 246 30 $a Language, disability, and the narratives of modernity 264 1 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c [2014] 300 $a ix, 301 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cultural front 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. 505 0 $a The Bearing Across of Language: Care, Catachresis, and Political Failure -- Linguistic Impairment and the Default of Modernism: Totality and Otherness: Dys-/Disarticulate Modernity -- Post-Modern Wild Children, Falling Towers, and the Counter-Linguistic Turn -- Dys-/Disarticulation and Disability -- Alterity Is Relative: Impairment, Narrative, and Care in an Age of Neuroscience. 520 $a Language is integral to our social being. But what is the status of those who stand outside of language? The mentally disabled, "wild" children, people with autism and other neurological disorders, as well as animals, infants, angels, and artificial intelligences, have all engaged with language from a position at its borders. In the intricate verbal constructions of modern literature, the "disarticulate", those at the edges of language, have, paradoxically, played essential, defining roles. Drawing on the disarticulate figures in modern fictional works such as Billy Budd, The Sound and the Fury, Nightwood, White Noise, and The Echo Maker, among others, the author shows in this study how these characters mark sites at which aesthetic, philosophical, ethical, political, medical, and scientific discourses converge. It is also the place of the greatest ethical tension, as society confronts the needs and desires of the least of its brothers. Here the author argues that the disarticulate is that which is unaccountable in the discourses of modernity and thus stands as an alternative to the prevailing social order. Using literary history and theory, as well as disability and trauma theory, he examines how these disarticulate figures reveal modernity's anxieties in terms of how it constructs its others. -- From publisher's website. 650 0 $a Articulation disorders. 650 0 $a Language disorders. 650 0 $a Anthropological linguistics. 650 0 $a Language and languages in literature. 650 0 $a People with disabilities in literature. 650 0 $a Language and languages $x Study and teaching. 650 0 $a Civilization, Modern $y 21st century. 830 0 $a Cultural front (Series) 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212024608.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20171107021514.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=331D4FFC6B5611E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search