Animals, Animality, and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781108429825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 398 str.

Bruce Boehrer; Molly Hand; Brian Massumi

Opis

This book introduces the field of animal studies as a means of exploring human-animal relations in literature, philosophy, and culture.

Recenzje

'This is a reference book indispensable to any self-respecting academic library, but it is also a publication that sits well in the personal collection of any student or lay person interested in the discipline.' Janette Leaf, The British Society for Literature and Science

Spis treści

Part I. Origins: 1. Aristotle's zoology in the medieval world Pieter Beullens; 2. Howling wolves and other beasts: animals and monstrosity in the Middle Ages Luuk Houwen; 3. Medieval bloodsport William Marvin; 4. Animals in late-medieval hagiography and romance David Salter; 5. Lions, mice, and learning from animals in Henryson's Fables Gillian Rudd; Part II. Development: 6. Animals, the devil, and the sacred in early modern English culture Molly Hand; 7. Shakespeare's animal theater Bruce Boehrer; 8. Classify and display: human and animal species, 1600–1815 Matthew Senior; 9. Swift among the locusts: vermin, infestation, and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century Lucinda Cole; 10. Animal subjectivities: gendered literary representation of animal minds in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty Deborah Denenholz Morse; 11. Friedrich Nietzsche on human nature: between philosophical anthropology and animal studies Vanessa Lemm; Part III. Contemporary Perspectives: 12. Opening up a dossier: animals, animalities, and living together with Roland Barthes Michael Lundblad; 13. Animal unfamiliars: a bestiary of time-travel cinema Alanna Thain; 14. Theorizing animals: Heidegger, Derrida, Agamben Matthew Calarco; 15. Becoming animal in the literary field Brian Massumi; 16. Animation and animism Thomas Lamarre; 17. Becoming mammoth: the domestic animal, its synthetic dreams and the pursuit of multispecies f(r)ictions David Jaclin; 18. Bush/animals Peter Kulchyski.