Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisisconnects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the...
Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisisconnects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and...
Animal Satirepresents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satirereveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through...
Animal Satirepresents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in wh...