See it feelingly : classic novels, autistic readers, and the schooling of a no-good English professor / Ralph James Savarese.
2018
616.85882 S265s 2018
Available at 2nd (Main) Floor
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Title
See it feelingly : classic novels, autistic readers, and the schooling of a no-good English professor / Ralph James Savarese.
ISBN
9781478001300 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1478001305 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1478001305 hardcover ; alkaline paper
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xviii, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
616.85882 S265s 2018
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1022548441
(OCoLC)1022548441
(OCoLC)1022548441
Summary
Since the 1940s researchers have been repeating claims about autistic people's limited ability to understand language, to partake in imaginative play, and the generate the complex theory of mind necessary to appreciate literature. In this book the author, an English professor whose son is one of the first nonspeaking autistics to graduate from college, challenges this view. Discussing fictional works over a period of years with readers from across the autism spectrum, the author was stunned by the readers' ability to expand his understanding of texts he knew intimately. Their startling insights emerged not only from the way their different bodies and brains lined up with a story but also from their experiences of stigma and exclusion. For Mukhopadhyay "Moby Dick" is an allegory of revenge against autism, the frantic quest for a cure. The white whale represents the autist's baffling, because wordless, immersion in the sensory. Computer programmer and cyberpunk author Dora Raymaker skewers the empathetic failings of the bounty hunters in Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Autistics, some studies suggest, offer instruction in embracing the non-human. Encountering a short story about a lonely marine biologist in Antarctica, Temple Grandin remembers her past with an uncharacteristic emotional intensity, and she reminds the reader of the myriad ways in which people can relate to fiction. Why must there be a norm? Mixing memoir with current research in autism and cognitive literary studies, the author celebrates how literature springs to life through the contrasting responses of unique individuals, while helping people both on and off the spectrum to engage more richly with the world.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Prologue: river of words, raft of our conjoined neurologies
From a world as fluid as the sea
The heavens of the brain
Andys and auties
Finding her feet
Take for Grandin.
From a world as fluid as the sea
The heavens of the brain
Andys and auties
Finding her feet
Take for Grandin.
Series
Thought in the act.
Available in Other Form
Online version: Savarese, Ralph James. See it feelingly. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018
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