Dubino / Rashidian / Smyth Representing the Modern Animal in Culture

2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-42865-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, eBook

Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in Culture employs key theoretical apparatuses of Animal Studies to literary texts. Contributors address the multifarious modes of animal representation and the range of human-animal interactions that have emerged in the past 300 years.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rashidian, Ziba

Dubino, J.

Rashidian, Z.

Smyth, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Jeanne Dubino PART I: IDENTITY: LIVES WITH DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN THE MODERN ERA 1. The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and West; Donna Landry 2. Paying Tribute to the Dogs: Turkish Strays in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Texts; Jeanne Dubino 3. Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne's Menagerie; Kathryn Kirkpatrick 4. Pets in Memoir; Kevin Ferguson PART II: ANTHROPOMORPHISM: ANIMALS AS METAPHOR IN THE AGE OF DARWIN 5. Darwin's Ants: Evolutionary Theory and Anthropomorphic Fallacy; Alexis Harley 6. Cats, Rats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals; Emily Essert 7. The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore's Elephants; Joshua Schuster 8. Untimely Metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and Animal Flânerie ; Caroline Pollentier PART III: THE POSTHUMAN: RECONCEIVING NONHUMAN ANIMALS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 9. Splicing Genes with Postmodern Teens: The Hunger Games and the Hybrid Imagination; Andrew Smyth 10. On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bare Life and Bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood; Ziba Rashidian 11. Being Out of Time: Animal Gods in Contemporary Extinction Fictions; Susan McHugh 12. Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World; Neel Ahuja

Über Autor(innen)

Neel Ahuja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

Emily Essert, Freelance Researcher and Editor, Canada

Kevin L. Ferguson, Queens College, City University of New York, USA

Alexis Harley, La Trobe University, Australia

Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Appalachian State University, USA

Donna Landry, University of Kent, UK

Susan McHugh, University of New England, USA

Caroline Pollentier, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France

Joshua Schuster, University of Western Ontario, Canada