Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 341 g
Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 341 g
Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
ISBN: 978-3-319-85782-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin: Ethik und Recht
Weitere Infos & Material
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.