As someone who only began reaching out to the stuttering community in recent years, I wonder what took me so long. Then again, as the old adage goes, better late than never.
Dr. Bob G Bodenhamer is a clinician and a certified trainer of Neurolinguistic Processing, or NLP, who applies its principles to the treatment of stuttering. His books on the subject are I Have a Voice: How to Stop Stuttering and Mastering Blocking and Stuttering: A Cognitive Approach to Fluency.
This is the continuation of an analysis of Marc Shell’s 2005 book, Stutter. (See part 1 here.) As described in the previous installment of this three-part review, Shell examines the phenomenon of stuttering as it pertains to four figures from popular culture: Moses, Hamlet, Marilyn Monroe, and Porky Pig.
Jordan Scott is an award winning, world-renowned Canadian poet who has stuttered his whole life. His first book of poetry published in 2006, Silt, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His second body of work, Blert in 2008, directly addresses the experience of stuttering and language. He is also the author of Night & Ox, among other works.
This is the third and final part of a review and analysis of Marc Shell’s 2005 text, Stutter. (Read Part 1 and Part 2). Shell is a Montreal-born professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard. He explores the significance of stuttering in an unusually broad scope of history, society, human evolution and culture.
This is a review of Stutter, by Marc Shell, published 2005 by Harvard University Press. Part one of three parts
The familiar saying “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover” has never been more true than when applied to Marc Shell’s Stutter. A photo of the author as a small child wearing a cowboy outfit graces the book jacket, his innocent face both quizzical and apprehensive.