Beyond the Human-Animal Divide

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.

• .- 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.