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

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

• | Author: Susana Onega
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1138584126
• | ISBN-13: 9781138584129