Autistic disturbances : theorizing autism poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rodas, Julia Miele, 1965- (Author)
Other Authors:	Yergeau, Melanie, 1984- (writer of foreword.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Autism in literature. Autistic people in literature. Language and languages in literature. Autistic people > Language. English prose literature. American prose literature. English fiction. American fiction.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Melanie Yergeau
Preface: Involuntarity and intentionality
Chapter one: Introduction
Chapter two: Articulating autism poetics
Chapter three: On the surprising elasticity of taxonomical rhetoric
Chapter four: Nothingness himself
Chapter four-and-a-half: (Why "Bartleby" doesn't live here)
Chapter five: Neuroqueer narration in Charlotte Brontés Villette
Chapter six: The absence of the object: autistic voice and literary architecture in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Chapter seven: Autism and narrative invention in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
Unconclusion: Because the butterfly: autistic infinitudes
An accounting: autistic infinitudes
Notes
Works cited
Acknowledgments: a litany
Index.