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

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Comparative literature and culture
Comparative literature and culture.
Note Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Note Ekphrasis and photographic description in De fotograaf.
Summary Mediating Vulnerability brings vulnerability studies into dialogue with media and genre studies to examine vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Vulnerability (Personality trait)
Vulnerability (Personality trait)
Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature.
Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Masschelein, Anneleen.
Mussgnug, Florian, 1974-
Rushworth, Jennifer.
Other Form: Print version: Masschelein, Anneleen Mediating Vulnerability London : UCL Press,c2021 9781800081154
ISBN 9781800081161
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