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The secret life of stories : from Don Quixote to Harry Potter, how understanding intellectual disability transforms the way we read

Bâerubâe, Michael, 1961- author

Overview

Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their well-formedness within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Berube tells a dramatically different tale, in a compelling account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with disabilities, he shows how ideas about intellectual disability inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies, providing a new and startling way of thinking through questions of time, self-reflexivity, and motive in the experience of reading.

• Publisher: New York University Press
• Subject: Narration (Rhetoric) / Reading disability. / Disability studies. / Sociology of disability.
• ISBN: 9781479823611, 1479823619

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN3383.N35 B48 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE