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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910774786403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : UCL Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 1-80008-116-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 pages)
• Disciplina: 155.232
• Soggetti: Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Ekphrasis and photographic description in De fotograaf -- Transparency and artificiality of the photographic medium -- Intermedial references as intertextual references -- The 'male gaze', the common denominator between pornography and ekphrasis -- Conclusion: text-image relations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 12 Through the doors of time: media interactions and cultural memory in El Ministerio del Tiempo -- El Ministerio del Tiempo: fictionalizing the past -- (Re)presenting the past: cultural memory and media -- Transmedia: making Spanish history and culture trending topics -- Beyond generic codes and references: reflecting on the past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 13 Vulnerability as duality in speculative fiction -- Speculative fiction's vulnerability as a literary genre -- Speculations on genre: the MaddAddam trilogy.; Speculated futures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 14 No, poetry is not out of date: notes on poetic writing and digital culture -- Digital poetry, the beautiful outcast? -- Digitization as demediatization and transmedialization -- Two authors confront the digital era (I): Olivier Cadiot -- Two authors facing the digital world (II): Pierre Alferi -- Towards a remediatization of poetic writing? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Afterword:Covid-19 or the vulnerability of the future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: Mediating Vulnerability brings vulnerability studies into dialogue with media and genre studies to examine vulnerability from a range of connected perspectives.