Read the Cinema of Isolation by Norden.
Negatives characters were impairment = 'badness' goes
back to the Romans and Greeks. Sennca's play on Claudius I - is but one example.
Keith
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:40:00 +0100
Peter Alldridge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi- I am an (ignorant) newcomer to the field.
> I'm interested in portrayals in literature &c of academics with disabilities,
> and their relationship to stereotypes. In Robertson Davies' (yes, the
> spelling does indicate Welsh provenance) The Manticore we encounter (page 463 of
> the Penguin Deptford Trilogy (1983)} Pargetter of Balliol:
>
> "He was a great law don, a blind man who nevertheless managed to be a famous
> chess player and such a teacher as I had never known."
>
> (The model is Sir Theodore Tylor). He falls squarely within the 'unseeing seer'
> stereotype.
>
> Does anyone know any further such examples, either in this group or:
>
> (i) the Richard III/Quasimodo/Captain Ahab/One-armed man (in The
> Fugitive)/Captain Hook group (fearsome, formidable, driven fighters whose
> 'disabilities' are irrelevant to their mobility but give a reason not
> to like them).
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