Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy

ISBN-13: 9781474439046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 224 str.

Danielle Sands

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Ten Statements about Empathy and Animal Studies; 1. Fragile Bodies, Cross-Species Empathy and Suspended Allegories: 'It Hurt, It Was Painful – that’s all there is to say’; 2. Anthropomorphism and the ‘Ends of Man’ in the Anthropocene: My Chimp Nature’; 3.Telling Nonhuman Stories: ‘The Secret Contours of Objects’; 4. The Sexual Politics of Nature Writing and Lepidoptery: 'The Siren Song of Entomology’; 5. Insect Ethics and Aesthetics: 'Their Blood does not Stain Our Hands’; Conclusion; Bibliography.