The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest

The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction: A Paradoxical Quest
ISBN-10
0429000057
ISBN-13
9780429000058
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
297
Language
English
Published
2018-04-27
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Susana Onega, Jean-Michel Ganteau

Description

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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