Poetic Animals and Animal Souls

ISBN-13: 9781349731381 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 200 str.

Randy Malamud; R. Malamud

Opis

This book offers a new paradigm for reading and appreciating animals in literature and addresses how human culture views animals in poetry.

Spis treści

PART ONE: ECOCRITICAL ETHICS OF READING On Knowing (and not Knowing) Animals PART TWO: POETIC ANIMALS Mesoamerican Spirituality and Animal Co-essences José Emilio Pacheco: 'I saw a dying fish' Marianne Moore: 'flies in amber' Smith, Larkin, Snyder, Heaney, Rogers: 'We should be kind'

O autorze

RANDY MALAMUD is Professor of English at Georgia State University, and Associate Chair of the department. He has written several books about T. S. Elliot and modern British literature, and he is author most recently of Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity.