Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative Approaches and Questions of Genre

Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative Approaches and Questions of Genre
Format
Paperback
Publisher
UCL Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
25 November 2021
Pages
272
ISBN
9781800081147

Mediating Vulnerability: Comparative Approaches and Questions of Genre

Mediating Vulnerability meditates on the creative and destructive powers of vulnerability in literary form. To experience vulnerability is to experience the tension between ruin and creativity: a vulnerable species faces extinction but also evolution, and a vulnerable person risks both irreparable harm and transformative connection. Mediating Vulnerability explores how this tension plays out across contemporary literary studies. Examining a variety of approaches to the destructive and remediating powers of genre, the authors consider how vulnerability intersects a range of representational forms including high-profile fiction by Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy as well as lesser-known graphic novels, video games, television, and photography.

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