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 examines vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives. It responds to the vulnerability of species, their extinction but also their transformation. This tension between extreme danger and creativity is played out in literary studies through the pressures the disciplin...

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Superior document:Comparative literature and culture
TeilnehmendeR:
Masschelein, Anneleen, 1971-
Rushworth, Jennifer, 1987-
Mussgnug, Florian, 1974-
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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