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Animals, animality, and literature / edited by Bruce Boehrer, Molly Hand, Brian Massumi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Cambridge critical conceptsPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvii, 383 pages illustrations 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108429825
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9362 23/swe
LOC classification:
  • PR149.A7
Other classification:
  • 81.09
Contents:
Part I. Origins -- 1. Aristotle's zoology in the medieval world / Pieter Beullens -- 2. Howling wolves and other beasts: animals and monstrosity in the Middle Ages / Luuk Houwen -- 3. Medieval bloodsport / William Marvin -- 4. Animals in late-medieval hagiography and romance / David Salter -- 5. Lions, mice, and learning from animals in Henryson's Fables / Gillian Rudd -- Part II. Development -- 6. Animals, the devil, and the sacred in early modern English culture / Molly Hand -- 7. Shakespeare's animal theater / Bruce Boehrer -- 8. Classify and display: human and animal species, 1600–1815 / Matthew Senior -- 9. Swift among the locusts: vermin, infestation, and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century / Lucinda Cole -- 10. Animal subjectivities: gendered literary representation of animal minds in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- 11. Friedrich Nietzsche on human nature: between philosophical anthropology and animal studies / Vanessa Lemm -- Part III. Contemporary Perspectives -- 12. Opening up a dossier: animals, animalities, and living together with Roland Barthes / Michael Lundblad -- 13. Animal unfamiliars: a bestiary of time-travel cinema / Alanna Thain -- 14. Theorizing animals: Heidegger, Derrida, Agamben / Matthew Calarco -- 15. Becoming animal in the literary field / Brian Massumi -- 16. Animation and animism / Thomas Lamarre -- 17. Becoming mammoth: the domestic animal, its synthetic dreams and the pursuit of multispecies f(r)ictions / David Jaclin -- 18. Bush/animals / Peter Kulchyski.
Summary: Summary: "Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally-noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores to the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands" --.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Origins -- 1. Aristotle's zoology in the medieval world / Pieter Beullens -- 2. Howling wolves and other beasts: animals and monstrosity in the Middle Ages / Luuk Houwen -- 3. Medieval bloodsport / William Marvin -- 4. Animals in late-medieval hagiography and romance / David Salter -- 5. Lions, mice, and learning from animals in Henryson's Fables / Gillian Rudd -- Part II. Development -- 6. Animals, the devil, and the sacred in early modern English culture / Molly Hand -- 7. Shakespeare's animal theater / Bruce Boehrer -- 8. Classify and display: human and animal species, 1600–1815 / Matthew Senior -- 9. Swift among the locusts: vermin, infestation, and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century / Lucinda Cole -- 10. Animal subjectivities: gendered literary representation of animal minds in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- 11. Friedrich Nietzsche on human nature: between philosophical anthropology and animal studies / Vanessa Lemm -- Part III. Contemporary Perspectives -- 12. Opening up a dossier: animals, animalities, and living together with Roland Barthes / Michael Lundblad -- 13. Animal unfamiliars: a bestiary of time-travel cinema / Alanna Thain -- 14. Theorizing animals: Heidegger, Derrida, Agamben / Matthew Calarco -- 15. Becoming animal in the literary field / Brian Massumi -- 16. Animation and animism / Thomas Lamarre -- 17. Becoming mammoth: the domestic animal, its synthetic dreams and the pursuit of multispecies f(r)ictions / David Jaclin -- 18. Bush/animals / Peter Kulchyski.

Summary: "Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally-noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores to the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands" --.

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