Literary Neurodiversity Studies

Current and Future Directions
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-80602-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 106 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 271 g

Reihe: Literary Disability Studies

This book is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the field of literary neurodiversity studies, a growing approach to literary criticism that has emerged in the past decade. Its three parts are designed to: 1) introduce readers both to the general concept of neurodiversity and to current outlooks, approaches, and key scholarship from literary neurodiversity studies; 2) to present one possible vision of the future of literary neurodiversity studies, by offering an argument about how the field might further entwine with more general research on literary cognition, literary emotion, and literary sensation; and 3) to model for readers how one might perform a neurological reading of a literary text, by offering a sustained analysis of Shakespeare’s . It also contains an extensive bibliography of existing scholarship from literary neurodiversity studies, which will provide an indispensable resource for new and experienced researchers in the field.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irish, Bradley J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction:  What is Neurodiversity?.- Chapter 2: Literary Neurodiversity: The Present.- Chapter 3: Literary Neurodiversity: A Future?.- Chapter 4: Case Study: Neurodiversity and Neurodivergence in .- Chapter 5:  Conclusion: Looking Forward: The Future of Neurodiversity.- Appendix: Bibliography of Literary Neurodiversity Studies.

Über Autor(innen)

Bradley J. Irish is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA, where he focuses on the literary and cultural history of Renaissance emotion and, more recently, early modern neurodiversity studies.  He is the author of (2018), (2023), (2024), and (2025), and the co-editor of (2021), (2022), and the forthcoming .  He is an internationally recognized expert on early modern emotion and is becoming an important contributor to the development of early modern neurodiversity studies.