Aesthetics of Care

On the Literary Treatment of Animals

AvJosephine Donovan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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In this important new book from a distinguished scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the basis for a critical approach to the representation of animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to an applied section, with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, George Sand, and J.M. Coetzee. The book closes with three concluding theoretical chapters. Clear, original, and provocative, The Aesthetics of Care introduces and makes new contributions to a number of burgeoning areas of study and debate: aesthetics and ethics, critical theory, animal ethics, and ecofeminist criticism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-06-02
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:445 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501317194

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Josephine Donovan is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Maine, USA. She is the author or editor of 13 books, including Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 (2d. rev. ed., 2013), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, After the Fall (1989), and The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics (2007, co-edited with Carol J. Adams). Her groundbreaking Feminist Theory (first published, 1985; fourth edition, 2012), which was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and described as “the classic survey and analysis of the roots and development of feminist theory,” has been translated into Chinese, Turkish, and Japanese.

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[A] welcome contribution to the cultural project of making nonhuman animals more than props that represent human experiences … Donovan opens avenues for re-reading animals in literature as beings with agency, not just representations of human anxieties and aspirations … The Aesthetics of Care: On the Literary Treatment of Animals offers a practicable blueprint for turning the literature classroom into a site of cultural inquiry in advance of the speciesist standard.

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PrefaceIntroduction1. The Aesthetics of Modernity 2. Willa Cather’s Aesthetic Transitions3. The Aesthetics of Care4. Animal Ethics and Literary Criticism5. Tolstoy’s Animals6. Local-Color Animals7. Coetzee’s Animals8. Metaphysical Meat: “Becoming Men” and Animal Sacrifice9. The Transgressive Sublime, Katharsis, and Animal Sacrifice10. Caring to Hear, Caring to See: Art as EmergenceConclusionBibliography Index

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