Abstract

Many of the ableist tropes around disability and disabled people in the modern world find their antecedents in ancient mythology and its reception, but the seemingly ‘traditional’ nature of these harmful tropes and reflexes of storytelling is not established by accident or in the absence of readers. We argue here that classical reception needs to look to disability studies for a methodology that will allow the field to begin to theorize the role of the reader in the perpetuation of the ideology of ableism and ideas of bodily normativity. The field of classical reception studies engages in the process of investigating how the ‘traditional’ comes to be accepted as pre-existing; as such, it is vital that classical reception look to disability studies for the tools with which to lay bare the ways in which the apparatus of ableism comes to seem traditional. This article sets out some strategies for bringing classical reception and disability studies together with the aim of developing a more critical philology, an ethically-invested method for doing classical reception, and the theoretical and practical tools to create a more inclusive field. In short, this article makes the case for ‘cripping’ classical reception studies.

中文翻译：

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为什么经典接待需要残障研究？

摘要

在现代世界中，许多围绕残疾人和残疾人的能力主义比喻都在古代神话及其接受中找到了先例，但是这些有害的比喻和叙事反思的看似“传统”性质并非偶然或在没有读者的情况下建立的。 。我们在这里辩称，经典的接受需要考虑残疾研究的方法，该方法将使该领域开始理论化读者在使能力主义意识形态和身体规范观念永存的过程中的作用。古典接受研究领域涉及调查“传统”如何被接受为已存在的过程。因此，至关重要的是，古典接受研究必须以残疾研究为工具，以揭示出使能力主义设备变得传统的方式。本文提出了一些将古典接待和残疾研究结合起来的策略，目的是发展更为批判的文献学，进行古典接待的道德投资方法以及建立更具包容性的领域的理论和实践工具。简而言之，本文为“'断”古典接受研究提供了依据。