Animal Fables After Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor

ISBN-13: 9781108428200 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Chris Danta

Opis

A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.

Recenzje

'Chris Danta brilliantly demonstrates that attention to animal lives in the post-Darwinian fable has the potential to generate strong new readings, not only of a ubiquitous yet neglected genre in Anglo-American literary criticism, but also of an ensemble of texts that for too long have been read primarily as ciphers for purely human concerns.' Jennifer McDonell, Social Alternatives

Spis treści

Prologue: uplifting animals; 1. Looking up, looking down: orientations of the human; 2. The grotesque mouth; 3. 'The highest civilisation among ants': Stevenson and the fable; 4. 'An animal among the animals': Wells and the thought of the future; 5. Animal bachelors and animal brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett; 6. Scapegoats and scapegraces: becoming sacrificial animal in Kafka and Coetzee; Coda: 'Diogenes of the zoo'.