Posthumanist perspectives on literary and cultural animals
This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied t...
| Other Authors: | Maiti, Krishanu,, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
2021.
Cham, Switzerland : 2021. |
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1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Issues in Literature and Culture,.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Zoohistoricism: Literary animals as codes in history and culture
- 2. Can natural theology rethink its relationship with non-human animals?
- 3. Jacques Derrida and the Autobiographical (Non-Human) Animal: An Analysis of (False) Animal Autobiographies
- 4. Reassessing Predatory Animals in Literary Journalism: A Look at John Vaillant's The Tiger and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf
- 5. The Bird and Eye: Kinship with Birds as Proto-Ecofeminist Discourse of Liberation in George Meredith's The Egoist
- 6. Deconstructing the Human-Animal Hierarchy at the End of the World: Readings in Literary Representation of Apocalypse
- 7. The Snake Has A Face: Levinas, Mondo, and the Suffering Non-Human Animal
- 8. Bowers of Persuasion: Toward a Posthuman Visual Rhetoric.