Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-55931-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4401 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction. Examining contemporary animal representations and the fraught and potent distinctions humans fashion between themselves and all other animals, it asks how a range of novels make, re-make or un-make traditional conceptions of the creatures we love, admire, eat, vilify and abuse. Other Animals’ detailed readings of horses, an animalised human, a donkey, ants, chickens and chimpanzees develop new critical practices in Literary Animal Studies. They explore the connections between fictional animal representation, narrative form, ethics, and the lives and warm bodies of the real-world creatures that precede and exceed our imagination. Human-animal relationships are conditioned by our imaginative shapings of other animals, and by our sense of distinction from them, and Other Animals opens out how fictional animal forms and tropes respond to, participate in, or challenge the ways animals’ lives are lived out in consequence of human imaginings of them.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parry, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin: Ethik und Recht
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Animals and Literary Criticism.- 2. Animal's People: Animal, Animality, Animalisation.- 3. Ants, Myrmecology and Metaphor.- 4. Beautiful Flesh, Dismantled Bodies and Meaty Portions.- 5. The Sameness and Difference of Apes.- 6. Reimagining Animals, Reimagining Ourselves.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Catherine Parry completed her Ph.D on animals in twenty-first century fiction at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is an Associate Lecturer at the same institution. Research interests include literary animal studies, ecocriticism and narrative theory. Published work includes chapters on literature and rurality, and the fiction of Adam Roberts.