Queens Public Library, 4, 195n3
queer theory, 52
Quesenberry, Krista, 204n5
Quiz Show (film), 189
Rabinowitz, Peter, 148–150, 160–161, 203n8; “Truth in Fiction: A Reexamination of Audiences,” 148–149
Rain Man (film), 2
Rand, Ayn, 181
reader-response criticism, 19, 58
Ricoeur, Paul, 83, 109–111, 128, 202n3; Time and Narrative, 83; on Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf), 109–111
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 168
Rookie of the Year (film), 11
Rowling, J. K., 7–12, 34, 36; Albus Dumbledore, 8, 10, 19–21, 33–38; Ariana Dumbledore and disability, 35–38, 44; Gellert Grindelwald, 33–36; Harry Potter series, 7–12, 44, 84–85, 158; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 7; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 33–37, 61; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 8; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 8, 10, 33; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 8; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 7; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 7Rumsfeld, Donald, 111
Russian formalism, 45–46
Ryan, Vanessa, 195n2
Sacks, Oliver, 106, 202–203n4
Sally-Anne test, 22, 129
Samuels, Ellen, 2; Fantasies of Identification, 2
Saunders, George, 26; Bounty, 26
Savarese, DJ, 170
Savarese, Ralph, 170; Reasonable People, 170
Sawyer, Michael, 201n16
Schiller, Friedrich, 182; On the Aesthetic Education of Man, 182
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 1
Searle, John, 57, 198n11; The Construction of Social Reality, 57
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 173–175; Epistemology of the Closet, 174
Serra, Richard, 173
Shakespeare, Tom, 130, 196n8; “The Social Model of Disability,” 196n8
Shakespeare, William, 188; Hamlet, 20; King Lear, 63; Richard III, 49; The Tempest, 185; Timon of Athens, 145
Sheppard, Alice, 48; “When the Saints Come Crippin’ In,” 48
Shklovsky, Viktor, 45–46, 61, 163, 198n13; defamiliarization, 61, 198n13; laying bare the device, 45–46, 61; habitualization, 163
Siebers, Tobin, 25–26; Disability Aesthetics, 25
Smith, S. E., 196n9; “No Glee for Disabled People, 196n9
social model of disability, 27
sociality, disability as window on, 3, 21
source-tagging, 120–121, 138–139
Sokal, Alan, 184, 205n8
Sophocles, 126; Oedipus, 128, 202n3; Oedipus Rex, 126; Tiresias, 53, 198n5
Soyinka, Wole, 192
Spirko, Rob, 14–15
Star Trek (television show), 143
Star Wars (film), 11
Starr, G. Gabrielle, 195n2
Steinbeck, John, 13–14, 128, 191; Lennie Smalls, 13, 121, 128, 191–192, 194; Of Mice and Men, 13–14, 128, 158, 191, 194
Steinbeck, Thomas, 191
Stevens, Wallace, 118
Stone, Sharon, 1
Straus, Joseph N., 25–26, 197n4; Extraordinary Measures, 25–26; Stravinsky, 26
Sturgeon, Theodore, 30–31; More Than Human, 30
Terman, Lewis, 116
There’s Something About Mary (film), 53
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 53
Tomkins, Silvan, 173; affect theory, 173
Total Recall (film), 1–2, 30
Trent, James W., 201n17; Inventing the Feeble Mind, 201n17; Mental Retardation in America (with Steven Noll), 201n17
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 171
Truchman-Tataryn, Maria, 57
“Textual Abuse: Faulkner’s Benjy,” 57
Verhoeven, Paul, 1
Vermeule, Blakey, 22–24, 67, 170, 180, 195n2; “situational mindblindness,” 23–24, 67, 170; Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?, 22–23
Weaver, Sigourney, 143
What Maisie Knew (James), 24
Williams, Donna, 170, 203n4
Wilson, E. O., 179, 204n4
Wilson, Marvin, 191, 194, 205n10
Witcover, Paul, 129
Wolf, Maryanne, 187; Proust and the Squid, 187
Woolf, Virginia, 84, 134–135, 173, 176–178, 203n6, 204n10; Mrs. Dalloway, 84, 109–111, 178; The Waves, 135–136, 178
Wreck-It Ralph (film), 197n3
Wright, Richard, 42; Native Son, 42
X-Men (film), 1–2, 30, 195n1; Professor Xavier, 2, 195n1
Yeats, W. B., 184; “Among School Children,” 184
Yerkes, R. M., 116
Zunshine, Lisa, 22, 120–121, 138–139, 167–178, 186, 188–190, 204n5; Getting Inside Your Head, 171–173, 176, 186, 187–190; “Real Mindblindness, or, I Was Wrong,” 169–170; Theory of Mind, 167–169, 171–176, 189–190; Why We Read Fiction, 22, 120, 138–139, 167–173, 176–178, 189
About the Author
Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University. In 2012, he served as the President of the Modern Language Association.
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