Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast

A Multispecies Impression

AvJulian Yates

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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In what senses do animals, plants, and minerals write? How does their writingmark our livesour past, present, and future? Addressing such questions with an exhilarating blend of creative flair and theoretical depth, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast traces how the lives of, yes, sheep, oranges, gold, and yeast mark the stories of those animals we call human. Bringing together often separate conversations in animal studies, plant studies, ecotheory, and biopolitics, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast crafts scripts for literary and historical study that embrace the fact that we come into being through our relations to other animal, plant, fungal, microbial, viral, mineral, and chemical actors. The book opens and closes in the company of a Shakespearean character talking through his painful encounter with the skin of a lamb (in the form of parchment). This encounter stages a visceral awareness of what Julian Yates names a multispecies impression,the way all acts of writing are saturated with the writingof other beings. Yates then develops a multimodal reading strategy that traces a series of anthropo-zoo-genetic figures that derive from our comaking with sheep (keyed to the story of biopolitics), oranges (keyed to economy), and yeast (keyed to the notion of foundation or infrastructure). Working with an array of materials (published and archival), across disciplines and historical periods (Classical to postmodern), the book allows sheep, oranges, and yeast to dictate their own chronologies and plot their own stories. What emerges is a methodology that fundamentally alters what it means to read in the twenty-first century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-01-10
Mått:140 x 216 x 51 mm
Vikt:458 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Posthumanities
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:University of Minnesota Press
ISBN:9781517900670
Utmärkelser:Winner of Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast 2018

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Julian Yates is professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance (Minnesota, 2003).

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"Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast promises-and delivers-everything. A microcosmos, it treats sheep, plants, microbes, and Benjamin Franklin’s bread rolls, ranging from pastoral poetry to Philip K. Dick. At every turn, Yates surprised and delighted me. This volume's multimodal capaciousness, equally adept in historiographical, philosophical, biographical, and even genetic frameworks, should entice anyone feeling the slightest temptation towards posthuman and ecological cultural studies."-Karl Steel, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY"Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression is another of the year's tours de force, an exhilarating rumination on the strange intimacies between nonhuman and human life forms and practices that open a way to imagine the ‘multi species’ shapes of what we think we know about early modern culture."-Studies in English Literature"Of Sheep is one of the most sophisticated conjunctions of ecocriticism, posthumanism, and historicism to appear in many years, providing a comprehensive index of our current theoretical moment’s most influential proper names and terms of art. It’s beautiful in the way that all hand-drawn maps are, and it should be widely read."-Studies in English Literature

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsImpression Part I. Sheep1. Counting Sheep in the Belly of the Wolf2. What Was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions (Otium for Sheep)Part II. Oranges3. Invisible Inc. (Time for Oranges)4. Gold You Can Eat (On Theft)Part III. Yeast5. Bread and Stones (On Bubbles)ErasureAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex