Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture – serie
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Plants in Contemporary Poetry
Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination
Av John Ryan
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise Glück, and Alice Oswald, it addresses …
Animals, Plants, and Landscapes
An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film
Av Hande Gurses, Irmak Ertuna Howison
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape. Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, will be the first major study to offer fresh theoretical insight into this landscape, by offering a collection of …
Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture
Av Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture …
Ghost, Android, Animal
Trauma and Literature Beyond the Human
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of severe pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought. Investigating how literary representations of ghosts, androids, and animals engage traumatic …
Race Matters, Animal Matters
Fugitive Humanism in African America, 1840-1930
Häftad, 2019
843 kr
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Race Matters, Animal Matters challenges one of the grand narratives of African American studies: that African Americans rejected racist associations of blackness and animality through a disassociation from animality. Analyzing canonical texts written by Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. …
Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture
Av Brenda Ayres, Sarah Elizabeth Maier
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those before and after for its pervasive sense of the "proper way" of thinking, speaking, doing, and acting. Animals in literature taught Victorian children …
Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature
Sovereign Colony
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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This book examines apian imagery—bees, drones, honey, and the hive—in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society faced unprecedented challenges even as it …
Shakespeare’s Things
Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance
Av Brett Gamboa, Lawrence Switzky
Inbunden, 2019
3146 kr
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Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human …
Writing the Land, Writing Humanity
The Maya Literary Renaissance
Inbunden, 2020
3146 kr
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The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new and vibrant literary movement, the book argues that the texts present literature as a trans-species …
Outside the Anthropological Machine
Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species’ arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our being-in-the-world as Homo sapiens, this monograph …
Outside the Anthropological Machine
Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies
Häftad, 2022
809 kr
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In the midst of the climate crisis and the threat of the sixth extinction, we can no longer claim to be the masters of nature. Rather, we need to unlearn our species’ arrogance for the sake of all animals, human and non-human. Rethinking our being-in-the-world as Homo sapiens, this monograph …
Exploring the Non-Human and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writings
Colonial Idols in British Curation and Culture
Inbunden, 2026
2879 kr
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Exploring the Non-Human and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writings: Colonial Idols in British Curation and Culture examines the curatorial and literary representations of colonial idols in British writings of the long nineteenth century as they emerged in the imperial heartland as alien art, …
Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature
Sovereign Colony
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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This book examines apian imagery—bees, drones, honey, and the hive—in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society faced unprecedented challenges even as it …
Ethos of Digital Environments
Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy
Av Susanna Lindberg, Hanna-Riikka Roine
Inbunden, 2021
3146 kr
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While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently visible and evaluable. This collection of articles from both distinguished …
Ethos of Digital Environments
Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy
Av Susanna Lindberg, Hanna-Riikka Roine
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently visible and evaluable. This collection of articles from both distinguished …
Animal Remains
Inbunden, 2021
3146 kr
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The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensualities, vulnerabilities and mortalities. But, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, animal …
Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative
Av Sonia Baelo-Allué, Mónica Calvo-Pascual
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of …
Victorians and Their Animals
Beast on a Leash
Av Brenda Ayres
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as a naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They were conscientiously, hegemonically determined to rule those beneath them and the animal within themselves, …
Stages of Transmutation
Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism
Av Tom Idema
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction novels by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jeff VanderMeer, in which the human …
Poetics of Angling in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Myra E. Wright takes ecocritical studies on an interdisciplinary turn toward the water with her new research monograph, The Poetics of Angling in Early Modern England. Identifying the lively presence of both literal and metaphorical images of sportfishing in all kinds of early modern writing, this …
Bestial Oblivion
War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2020
926 kr
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Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how …
Novel Creatures
Animal Life and the New Millennium
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern times and argues that the novels of this period reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human and animal …
Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature
Shakespeare, Descartes, and Animal Studies
Häftad, 2020
926 kr
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This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature and natural history display an unequal creaturely world: all creatures were categorized hierarchically. However, …
Landscapes of W. H. Auden’s Interwar Poetry
Roots and Routes
Av Ladislav Vít
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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This is the first book-length study foregrounding Auden’s sense of place as a means for enhancing our grasp of this crucial twentieth-century poet. Proposing that Auden had a remarkable spatial sensibility, this book concentrates on his treatment of his homeland England, as well as the North …
Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative
Av Sonia Baelo-Allué, Mónica Calvo-Pascual
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of …
Futures of the Human Subject
Technical Mediation, Foucault and Science Fiction
Inbunden, 2022
3146 kr
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Futures of the Human Subject focuses on the representation of the effects of technology use on human subjectivity in several recent near-future science fiction novels. Sharing the idea that human subjects are constructed in the world in which they exist, this volume inscribes itself in the wider …
Stages of Transmutation
Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism
Av Tom Idema
Inbunden, 2018
2879 kr
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Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environmental posthumanism through analyses of acclaimed science fiction novels by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jeff VanderMeer, in which the human …
Novel Creatures
Animal Life and the New Millennium
Inbunden, 2018
2879 kr
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Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern times and argues that the novels of this period reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human and animal …
Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Av Melanie Duckworth, Lykke Guanio-Uluru
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker’s fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and other plants have been enduring features of stories for children …
Animals, Plants, and Landscapes
An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film
Av Hande Gurses, Irmak Ertuna Howison
Häftad, 2021
812 kr
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The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape. Animals, Plants, and Landscapes: An Ecology of Turkish Literature and Film, will be the first major study to offer fresh theoretical insight into this landscape, by offering a collection of …
