Novel Creatures

Animal Life and the New Millennium
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8153-5689-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern times and argues that the novels of this period reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human and animal experience, thus moving beyond work that primarily attends to distinctions between the human and the animal. Carrying forward this recent scholarship, Novel Creatures argues that creatureliness has been an intensely millennial preoccupation, but in two contrasting forms—one leading up to the turn of the millennium, and the other appearing after the tragic events of 9/11.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thompson, Hilary

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Shared Catastrophe and the Call of the Creaturely

1 Trials by Water: Aquatic Landscapes, Questionable Sacrifices in Yann Martel and Linda Hogan

2 Ringing in Animals and Eras: At the Circus with Sara Gruen and Angela Carter

3 From Farm to Fable: Harvesting Humans in J. M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Michel Faber

4 Dwelling in the Future: Human-Animal Apocalypses in Indra Sinha and Barbara Gowdy

Coda: Tania James’s Millennial Elephant

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hilary Thompson is Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College, USA. She teaches and publishes on contemporary literature, particularly on questions of the animal and globalization. Her work appears most recently in the volumes The City Since 9/11: Literature, Film, Television and Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature.