The Wounded Hero In Contemporary Fiction

Author : Susana Onega
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429000057
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction written by Susana Onega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Monica La Porta
Publisher : Monica La Porta
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing My Wounded Hero written by Monica La Porta and published by Monica La Porta. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amnesia took everything from him but in return gave him the most precious of gifts… Love. A soldier with no past. A lady who has her future all figured out. A forbidden passion. Alexander has lost both his memory and his sense of self in Spain, fighting Bonaparte. Following a harrowing recovery, he has returned to England but is finding it difficult to adjust to his new life as a groom in the Merriweather stables. The only bright spot in an otherwise dull existence is when the daughter of the earl summons him—she is the object of his forbidden desire, the woman he can never have, and the reason he hates being a nobody. Lady Charlotte, Charlie, is not on the shelf yet, but the clock is ticking and she needs to elect a suitable husband. She is not looking to marry for love as her friends have done—any lord with the right attributes will suffice. Namely, the man she will marry must show an interest in spearheading her many programs for the poor in the House of Lords. Nothing less will do. That all changes the day she asks the new groom to escort her on a mission to save a child and her plans for the future crumble before her eyes. What starts as an infatuation soon becomes an all-consuming passion burning bright and fast until it is a fiery love that threatens to consume everything in its path. He is a servant. She is a lady. How can they pursue their hearts’ desire when society has decreed they can never be together?

Author : Hope Ford
Publisher : Hope Ford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wounded Hero written by Hope Ford and published by Hope Ford. This book was released on with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He doesn’t have anything to offer. She’s going to prove him wrong. This past year has been the worst of my life. I’m not the same man that I used to be. I’m not whole. Besides my own pain, I’ve hurt my kids and my wife of twenty years. I can’t let her touch me, hold me... love me. I try to push her away because they’re all better off without me. But even knowing that is true... I’m weak. I can’t live without her. I know I have to do better. I’m going to do whatever I have to do to be the man she needs. Because I may have lost a part of me, but it’s her that makes me whole.

Author : Sadie King
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Scars We Cannot See written by Sadie King and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man is not meant to live alone. He becomes dangerous, possessive, protective of what's his. And she is all mine... Since retiring from the military, I don't like human company. Until I meet Emily, my new neighbor. She's as damaged as I am and running from her own demons. When they catch up with her, I must fight my own inner darkness to protect the woman I love. But two broken hearts don't always make a whole... The Heart of the Wounded Hero series was created to pay tribute to and raise awareness of our wounded heroes. Each of the over eighty authors involved have contributed time, money, and stories to the cause. These love stories are inspiring and uplifting, showing the sacrifice of our veterans but also giving them the happily ever after they deserve. By increasing awareness through our books, we believe we can in a small part help the wounded heroes that have sacrificed so much. Thank you for reading! Authors note: All the Scars we Cannot See is a short instalove novella that can be read in about two hours.

Author : Susana Onega
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000750264
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction written by Susana Onega and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The working hypothesis of the book is that, since the 1990s, an increasing number of Anglophone fictions are responding to the new ethical and political demands arising out of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting the conventions of traditional forms of expressing grievability, such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography. Situating themselves in the wake of Judith Butler’s work on (un-)grievablability, the essays collected in this volume seek to cast new light on these issues by delving into the socio-cultural constructions of grievability and other types of vulnerabilities, invisibilities and inaudibilities linked with the neglect and/or abuse of non-normative individuals and submerged groups that have been framed as disposable, exploitable and/or unmournable by such determinant factors as sex, gender, ethnic origin, health, etc., thereby refining and displacing the category of subalternity associated with the poetics of postmodernism.

Author : Armelle Parey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429795882
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prequels, Coquels and Sequels in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction written by Armelle Parey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers to delineate a key phenomenon in contemporary Anglophone fiction: novel expansion, when the plot and characters from a finished novel are retrieved to be developed in new adventures set before, after or during the narrative time of the source-text. If autographic and allographic sequels are almost as old as literature, prequels – that imagine the anteriority of a narrative – and coquels – that develop secondary characters in the same story time as the source-text – are more recent. The overall trend for novel expansion spread in the mid-1980s and 1990s and has since shown no sign of abating. This volume is organised following three types of relationships to the source-texts even if these occasionally combine to produce a more complex structure. This book comprises 11 essays, preceded by an introduction, that examine narrative strategies, aesthetic, ethical and political tendencies underlying these novel expansions. Following the overview provided in the introduction, the reader will find case studies of prequels, coquels and sequels before a final chapter that encompasses them all and more.

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374308896
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Peculiar Peril written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Peculiar Peril is a head-spinning epic about three friends on a quest to protect the world from a threat as unknowable as it is terrifying, from the Nebula Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer. Jonathan Lambshead stands to inherit his deceased grandfather’s overstuffed mansion—a veritable cabinet of curiosities—once he and two schoolmates catalog its contents. But the three soon discover that the house is filled with far more than just oddities: It holds clues linking to an alt-Earth called Aurora, where the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley has stormed back to life on a magic-fueled rampage across a surreal, through-the-looking-glass version of Europe replete with talking animals (and vegetables). Swept into encounters with allies more unpredictable than enemies, Jonathan pieces together his destiny as a member of a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora. But as the ground shifts and allegiances change with every step, he and his friends sink ever deeper into a deadly pursuit of the profound evil that is also chasing after them.

Author : Christine DePetrillo
Publisher : Christine DePetrillo
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Kind Hero (Heart of a Wounded Hero) written by Christine DePetrillo and published by Christine DePetrillo. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when your life plan goes up in flames? Army sniper Reid Colborn has nothing left. His last mission was technically a success. Enemy hit. Boy rescued. Day saved. Getting trapped in a burning building, however, wasn’t part of the plan. Now Reid doesn’t have a steady shooting arm, and his military career is over. Heading back to his hometown of Maplehaven, Vermont is not the next target he’d hoped for, but he’s out of choices. Until architect Valerie Bellerose gives him another option. When Valerie sees Reid, every detail of their one night together as teens nearly ten years ago comes flooding back. Not that the memory had ever died. Reid had given her something that had made it impossible to forget him. Now that he’s back, can they have a second chance to hit their mark? Is one kind hero high enough caliber to build the family they’ve always wanted? One Kind Hero is a second-chance, small-town, steamy contemporary romance novella with a wounded military hero searching for what comes next after losing everything. For more romances set in Maplehaven, check out the One Kind Deed Series also by Christine DePetrillo. The Heart of the Wounded Hero series was created to pay tribute to and raise awareness of our wounded heroes. Each of the over eighty authors involved have contributed time, money, and stories to the cause. These love stories are inspiring and uplifting, showing the sacrifice of our veterans but also giving them the happily ever after they deserve. By increasing awareness through our books, we believe we can in a small part help the wounded heroes that have sacrificed so much. Thank you for reading.

Author : Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429516789
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English written by Jessica Aliaga-Lavrijsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transmodern Perspectives on Contemporary Literatures in English offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all over the world, such as: Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, A. S. Byatt, Tabish Khair, David Mitchell, Alice Munroe, Harry Parker, Caryl Phillips, Richard Rodriguez, Alan Spence, Tim Winton and Kenneth White. The volume offers a thorough questioning of the concept of the transmodern, as well as an informed insight into the future formal and thematic development of literatures in English.

Author : Jorge Sacido-Romero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351604899
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and Short Fiction written by Jorge Sacido-Romero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their new monograph, Gender and Short Fiction: Women's Tales in Contemporary Britain, Jorge Sacido-Romero and Laura M Lojo-Rodriguez explain why artistically ambitious women writers continue turning to the short story, a genre that has not yet attained the degree of literary prestige and social recognition the novel has had in the modern period. In this timely volume, the editors endorse the view that the genre still retains its potential as a vehicle for the expression of female experience alternative to and/or critical with dominant patriarchal ideology present at the very onset of the development of the modern British short story at the turn of the nineteenth century.