Human Minds and Animal Stories: How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species

ISBN-13: 9780367661960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 200 str.

Wojciech Malecki; Piotr Sorokowski; Boguslaw Pawlowski

Opis

Combining psychological research with insights from animal studies, ecocriticism and other fields in the environmental humanities, the book provides evidence that animal stories can make us care for other species, their effects more complex and fascinating than we have ever thought.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 Texts, Statistics, and Deception: On Our Investigative Method

Chapter 2 A Monkey, a Book, and Facebook, or How to Catch a Story in the Act

Chapter 3 Does It Matter If It Is True? On Slaughterhouses, Fiction, and Non-Fiction

Chapter 4 Does It Matter How It Is Told? On Species, Stylistics, and Voices

Chapter 5 Does It Matter Who It Is About? On Chimpanzees, Lizards, and Other Main Characters

Chapter 6 How Does It Work? From Readerly Pleasure to Animal Cruelty

Chapter 7 How Long Will It Work? A Short Chapter on Attitudinal Impact Over Time

Conclusions, Speculations, and Prospects

Appendices

Index

O autorze

Wojciech Małecki is assistant professor at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He specializes in literary theory, ecocriticism, animal studies, American pragmatism, aesthetics, and the empirical study of literature. He is the author and editor of five books and of numerous articles published in journals such as The Oxford Literary Review, Poetics, Angelaki, and PLoS One.

Piotr Sorokowski is associate professor and head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He has published more than seventy research articles related to evolutionary, cultural, and social psychology, including in Nature, Evolution and Human Behavior, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. His work has been discussed by the media all over the world, including BBC, CNN, Time, and The New Yorker.

Bogusław Pawłowski is head of the Department of Human Biology at the University of Wrocław, Poland. He deals with human behavior and preferences in relationship to body morphology and physiology. He has published more than eighty papers in top journals in his field (e.g. in Nature, PNAS, Proc. Roy. Soc. B., Current Anthropology) and dozens of book chapters. He is the President of the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies (PTNCE).

Marcin Cieński is professor of literary history and comparative literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Wrocław. His research interests include eighteenth-century and contemporary literature. He has authored and edited more than 150 publications, including The Landscapes of the Enlightened; Polish Enlightenment Literature and the European Tradition; and Polish Humanism and Communities.