Bøker av Marc Shell

Explores the phenomenon of stuttering from its practical and physical aspects to its historical profile to its existential implications. The author plumbs the depths of this murky region between will and flesh, intention and expression, idea and word.

Reveals wampum's undeniable influence on the cultural, political, and economic foundations of North America.

A fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across the "islandologies" of different cultures and argues for a world of islands.

This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and meaningful talk.

In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic.