Beyond the Human-Animal Divide

Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture

AvDominik Ohrem,Roman Bartosch

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature

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Beskrivning

This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-21
Mått:148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Antal sidor:325
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137603098

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Dominik Ohrem is Lecturer in the Anglo-American Department of the School of History at the University of Cologne, Germany.Roman Bartosch is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Innehållsförteckning

.- Animating Creaturely Life.- Earth Ethics and Creaturely Cohabitation.- An Address from Elsewhere: Vulnerability, Relationality, and Conceptions of Creaturely Embodiment.- “Creature Comforts”: Crafting a Common Language Across the Species Divide.- Cuts: The Rhythms of ‘Healing-with’ Companion Animals.- A Dog’s Death: Art as a Work of Mourning.- Playing Like a Loser.- Storying Creaturely Life.- The Collaborative Craft of Creaturely Writing.- Animals as Signifiers: Re-Reading Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things as a Genealogical Working Tool for the Historical Human-Animal Studies.- Reading Seeing: Literary Form, Affect, and the Creaturely Potential of Focalization.- Creaturely Apotheosis: Posthumanist Vulnerability in Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja.- ‘the impulse towards silence’: Creaturely Expressivity in Beckett and Coetzee.- Fearful Symmetries: Pirandello’s Tiger and the Resistance to Metaphor.