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Author Snediker, Michael D., author

Title Contingent figure : chronic pain and queer embodiment / Michael D. Snediker
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages)
Contents Preface: Crasher -- Introduction: "So much for my figurative self" -- or, aesthetic duress (Plein air, in parts) -- Melville's iron crown of Lombardy : phenomenology beyond the phantom limb -- Queer philology and chronic pain -- "The vision - pondered long" : chronic pain and the materiality of figuration -- Inveterate pagoda : late James, ongoingness, and the figure of hurt -- Is the rectangle a grave? : floating attention, betweenness in relief -- Weaver's handshake : the aesthetics of chronic objects
Summary "A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic pain"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Chronic pain -- Psychological aspects
Chronic pain -- Social aspects
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Queer theory.
Chronic pain -- Psychological aspects
Chronic pain -- Social aspects
Coming out (Sexual orientation)
Queer theory
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020048328
ISBN 9781452965291
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1452965285
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