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Summary:

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

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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Contributors:

Masschelein, Anneleen

Mussgnug, Florian

Rushworth, Jennifer

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Mediating Vulnerability [by Masschelein, A.] (London : UCL Press,c2021 — ISBN 9781800081154)

Related Series:

Comparative literature and culture

Subjects:

Vulnerability (Personality trait)

Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ekphrasis and photographic description in De fotograaf.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BF698.35.V85 M435 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781800081161
1800081162
9781800081130 (electronic bk.)
1800081138 (electronic bk.)
1800081154 [Invalid]
9781800081154 [Invalid]
1800081146 [Invalid]
9781800081147 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1285165943