This essay reconsiders the representation of cognitive disability in literature, suggesting a new mode of reading in which the disabled character is viewed as a dynamic figure with an identity, and corresponding set of formal implications, that the reader comes to know over the progression of the story. Focusing on Benjy's section in The Sound and the Fury, I examine the specific disabled modality by which Faulkner's narrator organizes the world: object attention. Benjy uses objects to constellate his experiences, and a latent pattern of object deployment undergirds the narrative. As Benjy "tries to say" his story, he crafts a narrative that generates from his object attachments, allowing readers to make sense of his experience in a novel form-if we only try to see it. My analysis suggests that the appeal of fiction about cognitive disability lies not in confronting some fundamental inaccessibility of the disabled subject or the world he inhabits, but in wrestling with the strictures of a text's accessibility so that the subject or world might come to be known.

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《喧嚣与骚动》中的白痴和对象注意力阅读

这篇文章重新考虑了认知障碍在文学中的表现，提出了一种新的阅读模式，在这种模式中，残疾角色被视为具有身份的动态人物，以及相应的一套正式含义，读者在阅读过程中逐渐了解这一点故事。关注本吉在《喧嚣与骚动》中的部分，我研究了福克纳的叙述者组织世界的具体残疾模式：对象注意力。Benjy 使用对象来组合他的经历，对象部署的潜在模式巩固了叙述。当本吉“试图讲述”他的故事时，他精心制作了一个从他的对象附件中产生的叙述，让读者以一种小说的形式理解他的经历——如果我们只是想看看它的话。