Comments on: Autism and Representation: New Book

By: Bonnie Sayers

Bonnie Sayers — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:30:11 +0000

Another book to put on my list to get sometime in near future.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:51:16 +0000

which axes of interpretation are we floating around here—–

By: laurentius-rex

laurentius-rex — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:31:51 +0000

the ratiometric of ametanoiasis.

The unchanging floater at the top of the pail.

The metonymic of which begins with an S…

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:44:02 +0000

And those are the most important ones—-the rest is 1990s “lit theory-speak.” I would have done some things differently in the essay had I written it now, after learning a lot more.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:52:42 +0000

“Fractioned Idiom: Metonymy and the Language of Autism”??

I understand four, maybe five words in that title, and three of them are “and,” “the”, and “of”.

By: More Thoughts on Recovery After an Interview

More Thoughts on Recovery After an Interview — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:29:58 +0000

[...] up, such as Jim’s work on the conversion narrative in autism literature (more about that in this book on autism and representation). Jim just taught a course on conversion narratives—often books with a religious topic, such [...]

By: Metaphors, Mitochondria, and the MMR

Metaphors, Mitochondria, and the MMR — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:35:15 +0000

[...] lot when we’re talking about autism. Especially important are the words that a parent uses to represent an autistic child, who may well not be able to (literally) speak for her or [...]

By: This Week’s Top Posts

This Week’s Top Posts — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:04:26 +0000

[...] Autism and Representation: New BookAutism and Representation is the title of a new book just published at the end of 2007 by Routledge Press and edited by Mark Osteen, a Professsor of English and Director of Film Studies at Loyola College in Maryland and the father of an autistic teenager. The book is the first scholarly book on autism in the humanities and contributors include scholars from the academic fields of English, disability studies, cultural history, rhetoric, classics, film studies, neuroscience, communication, and psychology and autistic adults. (I have an essay in the book, on poetry and autism.) [...]

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:22:13 +0000

Keep asking questions—-

Dr. Murray has an essay in the book on Hollywood films and autism; am more than looking forward to his own book when it is published.

By: laurentius-rex

laurentius-rex — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:10:08 +0000

Yep they are all in on the act like bees to a honeypot, this sudden interest is to my mind a manifestation of the very Alien Chic they are talking about, cashing in on it and robbing us of a little more authenticity all the while.

It is an epidemic, an infection, an affectation, it is everywhere I just saw today on the list of research in progress seminars given at a University near me the one with the clock tower, that there is to be a seminar on autism and representation,.

That’s it, I am going to heckle, even if the presenter is my supervisor