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.
Acknowledgements ix
Foreword xii
1 Introduction: Theorising the Corporeality of Writing 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Narrative Choices, Bodily Condition, and Artistic
Subjectivity 2
1.3 Contribution to Scholarly Conversation 5
1.4 Theoretical Approaches and Concepts 9
1.5 The Research Claim and Chapter Summaries 21
2 Blindness in Borgess Fictions 25
2.1 The Metaphorical Articulation of Blindness 28
2.2 The Dialectic of the Ideal and the Experiential 34
2.3 The Aesthetic Turn to the Experience of Blindness 47
3 Altered Sensation and Self-understanding in
Borgess Fictions 60
3.1 Dur?e and Intuition 62
3.2 Disabled Characters and Variations in Subjective
Time 63
3.3 Memory, Cyclical Time, and Creativity 73
4 The Everyday Experience of Growing Blind:
Narrative Subjectivity in Hull 80
4.1 The Narrative Form of the Diaries 81
4.2 Life and (Diary) Text 86
4.3 Dreaming and Waking Life 88
4.4 The Self-Constitutive Power of Archetypes 108
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5 Self-Knowledge through Interaction with the World 114
5.1 Knowing the Body, Knowing the Self 119
5.2 Social Interaction and Self-Knowledge 129
6 The Poetical Subjectivity of Kuusisto 134
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