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Silent poetry: deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France
Nicholas Mirzoeff
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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List of Illustrations (page xi)
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List of Abbreviations (page xiv)
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INTRODUCTION (page 3)
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Sign Wars
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The Art of Signing
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1 ANCIENT GESTURES, MODERN SIGNS (page 13)
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French Ancients and Moderns
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The Deaf in the Harem
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The Deafness of the Ancients
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Philosophy and the Sign
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Sign at the Salon
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Signs of Revolution
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2 SIGNS AND CITIZENS (page 48)
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Regeneration and the Deaf
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The Politics of Deafness
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The Normal and the Pathological
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David's Studio and the Deaf
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3 THE MIMICRY OF MIMESIS (page 90)
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Morality, Sign, and Pathology
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Mimicry, Copying, and Originality
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Revolt and Organization
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Cultural Politics
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A Culture of Gestures
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Mimicry and Mimesis
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4 VISUALIZING ANTHROPOLOGY (page 139)
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Touch, the Hand, and Gesture
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Evolutionism, Art, and the Sign
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The Silent Monument
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Milan and After
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5 A DEAF VARIETY OF MODERNISM? (page 194)
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Republican Morality
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The Deaf Artists and the Museum
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Gesture and Hysteria
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Deaf Republicans
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Deaf Artists and the Third Republic
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The Deaf and the Dreyfus Affair
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Eugenics and the Deaf
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Deaf Moderns
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EPILOGUE (page 255)
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Anthropology and Philosophy
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Art History
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Deaf Culture
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Notes (page 265)
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Index (page 311)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 102.2 (Apr. 1997): 462-463 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199704%29102%3A2%3C462%3ASPDSAV%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D |
BHM | 71.4 (1997): 749-750 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/v071/71.4br_mirzoeff.html |
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Published: c1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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