The project aims at exploring disability within the field of medical humanities and critical medical humanities with a focus on its cultural, discursive, and linguistic dimension, as well as on the performance of disability as both a culturally constructive process and an artistic and heuristic event deeply rooted in our understanding of the human. Building on a broad conception of performance, the project will explore the multiple meanings of disability: disability as ‘performance’ in everyday life, as a metaphor and/or an issue within drama texts and novels, and as the work and stage practices of disabled performing artists. The project calls into question conventional understandings of disability through an interdisciplinary, integrated perspective bringing together performance and disability studies, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive, cultural and translation studies. It thus aims at responding to the challenge represented by the disabled body to theoretical notions of ‘performativity’; to the strategies and modalities of expression of (possibly) different processes of thought determined by disability itself; and to reflect upon the ‘theatricality’ of disability and the central role of performance to the formation of disability identities. Additional areas of research include: history of medicine, medicine and theatre, communicative impairment, identification and estrangement through acting, theories of catharsis, empathy, theory of mind, fictional worlds, affect studies and literary criticism.
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Critical Theory & Poetics |
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Cultural Studies and Mentalities |
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Literature (General): Comparative literature (DFLL) |
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Literature (General): Comparative literature (DLLS) |
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Shakespeare |
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Stylistics |
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Theatre |
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