Organic Hesitancies: Stuttering and Sexuality in Melville, Kesey, and Mishima.

The article discusses the etiologies of stuttering and sexuality. It highlights the literary narratives of stuttering which tends to bind two popular psychogenic accounts of a stutterers personality type. It also examines the essay "Illness as Methapor" by Susan Sontag which depicts an understanding...

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Published in:	Comparative Literature Studies Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 200 - 219
Main Author:	Eagle, Christopher
Format:	Literary Criticism
Published:	Pennsylvania State University Press 2011
Subjects:	Stuttering Human sexuality Etiology of diseases Stutterers Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Kesey, Ken, 1935-2001 Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970 Essays Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 Pathology
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