| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77571 | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree. | en_US |
| dc.format | Monograph | |
| dc.format.medium | Electronic Resource | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dcterms.abstract | In this thesis, I examine two novels that feature characters with disabilities and that are often taught in secondary English classes. These texts will be analyzed through a disability studies perspective - a form of analysis that is not often taught in schools. The disability studies perspective involves looking at disability in a critical light and examining the social, cultural, and political ramifications of assumptions that are made about those considered to be " disabled" by the able-bodied majority. Using this lens, I will explore the assumptions about disability that seem to be represented in these works through their use of language, and how teachers can approach disability in literature in a way that will encourage their students to be conscious of harmful depictions of people with disabilities and to be aware of their own use of language and how it contributes to the many constructions of disability. | |
| dcterms.available | 2017-09-20T16:52:55Z | |
| dcterms.contributor | Dunn, Patricia A | en_US |
| dcterms.contributor | Pfeiffer, Douglas S | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | McCabe, Lyndsay L. | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-09-20T16:52:55Z | |
| dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2017-09-20T16:52:55Z | |
| dcterms.description | Department of English. | en_US |
| dcterms.extent | 42 pg. | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Application/PDF | en_US |
| dcterms.format | Monograph | |
| dcterms.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77571 | |
| dcterms.issued | 2014-12-01 | |
| dcterms.language | en_US | |
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| dcterms.publisher | The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. | |
| dcterms.subject | Disability, Disability studies, Handicapism, Mental disability, Of Mice and Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | |
| dcterms.subject | Literature | |
| dcterms.title | Representations of Disability in Of Mice and Men and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Avoiding Handicapism in the Classroom | |
| dcterms.type | Thesis | |
