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A Rhetoric of Remnants : Idiots, Half-Wits, and Other State-Sponsored Inventions.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (178 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438453033
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Rhetoric of RemnantsDDC classification:
  • 362.3/850974766
LOC classification:
  • HV3006.A4 -- .S786 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Rhetoric, Historical Recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School -- Minding the Gap -- Rhetoric -- Rhetoric and Remnants -- The Asylum-School, Its Pupils, and the Closing of the Institution -- Disability Studies and Feminist Rhetorics -- Review of Chapters -- 2. "Confusion into Order Changed": The Rhetorics That Govern(ed) Institutionalization -- Introduction -- The Noble Asylum -- The School -- The Prison -- The Described and the Counted -- The Nameless Idiot -- The Visited and the Displayed -- Conclusion -- 3. In Pursuit of the Active Life: The Roots, Rhetoric, and Recursiveness of "Special" (All) Education -- The Roots of "Special" Education -- All Sensations Are Touch, All Ideas Are Sensations -- The Object Method, the Hand, and the Garden System -- The Face, the Posture, Walking, Then Thinking -- Sensations, Notions, Then Ideas -- Imitation as Social Relation -- Speech, Language, Listening, and Recitation -- After Speech, Drawing, Writing, Then Reading -- The Excited Will of the Teacher, the Dull Will of the Pupil -- Moving the Will: Order, Social Decorum, and Appearances -- A Discourse of Rights and Participation in Worldly Affairs -- The Farm and the Sewing Room -- Burgeoning of the Asylum -- A Pedagogy of Sensation, Functional Action, and Participation -- 4. In Pursuit of the Underlife of an Archive -- Introduction -- Layers of Discourse -- Overview of the Letters -- Letters To Mrs. Thornton -- Harmony and Accord -- Tension and Discordance -- Listening Further -- Letters from Families and Pupils: In Praise of the Institution -- Listening Even Further -- 5. Conclusion: Idiocy-An Old, Worn-Out Story -- The Sheltered Workshop versus the World -- The Price of "Education" -- Inscribing Presence -- Straightening Up and Straightening Out -- Strength in Variation.
Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Rhetoric, Historical Recovery, and the New York State Asylum-School -- Minding the Gap -- Rhetoric -- Rhetoric and Remnants -- The Asylum-School, Its Pupils, and the Closing of the Institution -- Disability Studies and Feminist Rhetorics -- Review of Chapters -- 2. "Confusion into Order Changed": The Rhetorics That Govern(ed) Institutionalization -- Introduction -- The Noble Asylum -- The School -- The Prison -- The Described and the Counted -- The Nameless Idiot -- The Visited and the Displayed -- Conclusion -- 3. In Pursuit of the Active Life: The Roots, Rhetoric, and Recursiveness of "Special" (All) Education -- The Roots of "Special" Education -- All Sensations Are Touch, All Ideas Are Sensations -- The Object Method, the Hand, and the Garden System -- The Face, the Posture, Walking, Then Thinking -- Sensations, Notions, Then Ideas -- Imitation as Social Relation -- Speech, Language, Listening, and Recitation -- After Speech, Drawing, Writing, Then Reading -- The Excited Will of the Teacher, the Dull Will of the Pupil -- Moving the Will: Order, Social Decorum, and Appearances -- A Discourse of Rights and Participation in Worldly Affairs -- The Farm and the Sewing Room -- Burgeoning of the Asylum -- A Pedagogy of Sensation, Functional Action, and Participation -- 4. In Pursuit of the Underlife of an Archive -- Introduction -- Layers of Discourse -- Overview of the Letters -- Letters To Mrs. Thornton -- Harmony and Accord -- Tension and Discordance -- Listening Further -- Letters from Families and Pupils: In Praise of the Institution -- Listening Even Further -- 5. Conclusion: Idiocy-An Old, Worn-Out Story -- The Sheltered Workshop versus the World -- The Price of "Education" -- Inscribing Presence -- Straightening Up and Straightening Out -- Strength in Variation.

Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Examines the rhetoric in and around the New York State Asylum for Idiots in Syracuse, New York from 1854 to 1884.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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