Mediating vulnerability : : comparative approaches and questions of genre /

Mediating vulnerability : : comparative approaches and questions of genre / / edited by Anneleen Masschelein, Florian Mussgnug, Jennifer Rushworth.

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Mediating Vulnerability brings vulnerability studies into dialogue with media and genre studies to examine vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives.

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Superior document:Comparative literature and culture
TeilnehmendeR:
Masschelein, Anneleen, 1971-
Mussgnug, Florian, 1974-
Rushworth, Jennifer, 1987-
Place / Publishing House:London : : UCL Press,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Comparative literature and culture.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 262 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Information
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction: on/off limits
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 1 What if they could speak? Humanized animals in science fiction
  • Victor Frankenstein meets Charles Darwin
  • Listening to a dog's voice
  • The freak children of the bomb
  • Genetic engineering, or the new Frankensteins of the third millennium
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 2 Rewriting the myth: consideration of the Minotaur in Georgi Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow
  • 'The Case of M.': a story of abuse 'The Green Box': an anti-anthropocentric revolution
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 3 A vulnerable predator: the wolf as a symbol of the natural environment in the works of Ernest Thompson Seton, Jack London and Cormac McCarthy
  • Introduction: real vs mythical wolves
  • Seton and the trapper story
  • London's hybrid heroes
  • McCarthy's vulnerable predator
  • Conclusion: the endangered wolf
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 4 Retelling the Parsley Massacre: vulnerability and resistance in Danticat's The Farming of Bones
  • The massacre and its context
  • Narrating the massacre Conclusion: narration and community
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 5 Toni Cade Bambara's vulnerable men
  • Juxtaposing the deviant: representations of vulnerability
  • Narrating disability, narrating ideology?
  • Challenging (in)vulnerability
  • Towards 'Blackhood': conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 6 The Secret Agent
  • fictionalizing history: Joseph Conrad and Stan Douglas
  • A Simple Tale of the Nineteenth Century
  • A moment in flux
  • Looping time
  • From Hitchcock to the multiscreen
  • The process of suture
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 7 New worlds: violent intersections in graphic novels Introduction: new worlds and contrapuntal readings
  • A world before violence
  • First encounters
  • Violent intersections
  • New worlds
  • Glimmers of hope: a new new world?
  • Conclusion: documents of suffering and the future
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 8 Ludic space in horror fiction
  • Urban space in 'The Shadow over Innsmouth'
  • Formalizing action in video games
  • Virtual spaces in horror literature
  • Conclusion: horror fiction and vulnerability
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Ludography
  • 9 Graphic stories of resistance: a comic memoir of becoming
  • The dignity to fail and to differ Writing in a minor key
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • 10 The cryptographic narrative in video games: the player as detective
  • Narrative cryptography
  • Structure of cryptographic narrative within video games
  • The function of cryptographic narrative in video games
  • The case of Five Nights at Freddy's
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Gameography
  • 11 Narrating pornographic images: photographic description and ekphrasis in De fotograaf by Jef Geeraerts
  • Visuality in pornographic prose
  • Literature and photography.

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