Mediating vulnerability comparative approaches and questions of genre
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press
[2021]
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| Colección: | Comparative literature and culture.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009637725806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
