| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 22 |
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Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 22.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- 2 The Eclipse of Heroism and the Outing of Plural Masculinities in Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child -- 3 Espousing the Wound: Dispossession as Practice in Jon McGregor's So Many Ways to Begin -- 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 -- 5 Anita Brookner's Wounded Heroine -- 6 Wounded Characters and Vulnerable Lives and Places in Ian McEwan's Saturday -- PART III: Masochism and Loss of Affect -- 7 Willed Wounds: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Masochism in A.L. Kennedy's Fiction -- 8 The Masochistic Self Quest of the Harassed Hero in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life -- 9 Reading Through the Body: The Damaged Mind in Tom McCarthy's Remainder -- PART IV: Vulnerability and Biopolitics -- 10 Caring, Dwelling, Being: The Phenomenology of Vulnerability in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go -- 11 Wounded Subjects and Vulnerable Nature: Moving from Loss to Environmental Care in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland -- 12 Barely Alive: Rewriting Sacrificial Passion in J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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Heroes in literature.
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Heroines in literature.
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Wounds and injuries in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fiction.
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Heroes in literature.
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Heroines in literature.
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Wounds and injuries in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Onega Jaén, Susana, editor
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Ganteau, Jean-Michel, editor
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| ISBN |
9780429000065 |
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0429000065 |
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9780429000058 |
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0429000057 |
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9780429000041 |
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9780429505843 |
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0429000049 |
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0429505841 |
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