Chris Eagle's Dysfluencies

1998 Villanova graduate Chris Eagle (who wrote his Honors thesis on James Joyce) has recently published his book Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature.  Dysfluencies is the first comprehensive study of how speech disorders are portrayed in modern literature. Tracing the roots of this interaction between literary practice and speech pathology back to the rise of aphasiology in the 1860s, Dysfluencies examines portrayals of disordered speech by writers like Zola, Proust, Joyce, Melville, and Mishima, as well as contemporary writers like Philip Roth, Gail Jones, and Jonathan Lethem.