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Literature and Medicine
|December 31, 2019
Summary
This study proposes a new way to read literature featuring cognitive disability, focusing on how characters develop identities. By analyzing Faulkner's Benjy, it shows how object attention shapes narrative and reader understanding.
Area of Science:
- Literary criticism
- Disability studies
- Narrative theory
Background:
- Traditional literary analysis often struggles with representing cognitive disability.
- A new reading approach is needed to understand disabled characters as dynamic individuals.
Observation:
- Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, specifically Benjy's narrative section, exemplifies object attention as a cognitive modality.
- Benjy's narrative is structured around his attachments to objects, which helps him organize experiences.
Findings:
- Cognitive disability in literature can be understood through the narrator's unique way of organizing the world via object attention.
- Benjy's "object deployment" creates a discernible narrative pattern, revealing his identity and experiences.
Implications:
- Understanding cognitive disability in literature requires engaging with textual accessibility, not assuming inherent inaccessibility.
- This approach allows readers to access and comprehend the subjective world of disabled characters through narrative structure.
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