Stutter

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.

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In a book that explores the phenomenon of stuttering from its practical and physical aspects to its historical profile to its existential implications, Marc Shell plumbs the depths of this murky region between will and flesh, intention and expression, idea and word. This provocative and wide-ranging book shows that stuttering has implications for myriad types of expression and helps to define what it means to be human.