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The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest de Susana Onega

The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Editat de Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau
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The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together some of the top minds in the field to explore the paradoxical lives of these heroes that have embraced, rather than overcome, their suffering, alienation and marginalisation as a form of self-definition.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367666859
ISBN-10: 0367666855
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

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Acknowledgments


Introduction


Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega


Part I


Vulnerability and Self-Quest


1 Learning to Love: The Paradoxical Life Quests of the Male Protagonists in Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time


Susana Onega


2 The Eclipse of Heroism and the Outing of Plural Masculinities in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child


Georges Letissier


3 Espousing the Wound: Dispossession as Practice in Jon McGregor’s So Many Ways to Begin


Jean-Michel Ganteau


Part II


Vulnerability and Self-Definition


4 "Am I Still Alice?": The Quest for "a Sense of Self" and Alzheimer’s Disease in Lisa Genova’s Still Alice


Chiara Battisti


5 Anita Brookner’s Wounded Heroine


Eileen Williams-Wanquet


6 Wounded Characters and Vulnerable Lives and Places in Ian McEwan’s Saturday


Rosario Arias


Part III


Masochism and Loss of Affect


7 Willed Wounds: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Masochism in A. L. Kennedy’s Fiction


Maria Grazia Nicolosi


8 The Masochistic Self Quest of the Harassed Hero in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life


Merve Sarıkaya-Şen


9 Reading through the Body: The Damaged Mind in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder


Renate Brosch


Part IV


Vulnerability and Biopolitics


10 "Caring, Dwelling, Being: The Phenomenology of Vulnerability in Kazuo Ishiguro’sNever Let Me Go"


Laura Colombino


11 Wounded Subjects and Vulnerable Nature in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland


Angelo Monaco


12 Barely Alive: Rewriting Sacrificial Passion in Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K


Pascale Tollance




Notes on Contributors


Index

Recenzii

"A remarkably insightful volume which puts the ethics of fiction to the test of literary form. Turning its gaze on the grammar of genre, mode and characterization, it eschews generalization to pay attention to the conflicted legacy of the figure of the hero/heroine and to understand its lasting, if complex, agency." -- Catherine Bernard, Paris Diderot University

Notă biografică

Susana Onega is Professor of English at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She is the author of books on William Faulkner, John Fowles, Peter Ackroyd, and Jeanette Winterson. She has also written numerous articles and book chapters on these and other writers and has edited or co-edited volumes on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, ethics and trauma.Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of English Literature at the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (France). He is the author of two monographs (on David Lodge and Peter Ackroyd) and of The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Literature (2015). He has written numerous articles and book chapters and has (co-)edited volumes on contemporary fiction, ethics and trauma, and vulnerability.

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The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together some of the top minds in the field to explore the paradoxical lives of these heros that have embraced, rather than overcome, their suff