The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest

ISBN-13: 9781138584129 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Susana Onega; Jean-Michel Ganteau

Opis

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 suffering, alienation and marginalisation as a form of self-definition.

Recenzje

"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