Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction

Catherine Parry (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XI, 245 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-55931-5 (ISBN)

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This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction. Examining contemporary animal representations and the fraught and potent distinctions humans fashion between themselves and all other animals, it asks how a range of novels make, re-make or un-make traditional conceptions of the creatures we love, admire, eat, vilify and abuse. Other Animals ' detailed readings of horses, an animalised human, a donkey, ants, chickens and chimpanzees develop new critical practices in Literary Animal Studies. They explore the connections between fictional animal representation, narrative form, ethics, and the lives and warm bodies of the real-world creatures that precede and exceed our imagination. Human-animal relationships are conditioned by our imaginative shapings of other animals, and by our sense of distinction from them, and Other Animals opens out how fictional animal forms and tropes respond to, participate in, or challenge the ways animals' lives are lived out in consequence of human imaginings of them.

Dr Catherine Parry completed her Ph.D on animals in twenty-first century fiction at the University of Lincoln, UK. She is an Associate Lecturer at the same institution. Research interests include literary animal studies, ecocriticism and narrative theory. Published work includes chapters on literature and rurality, and the fiction of Adam Roberts.

1. Animals and Literary Criticism.- 2. Animal's People : Animal, Animality, Animalisation.- 3. Ants, Myrmecology and Metaphor.- 4. Beautiful Flesh, Dismantled Bodies and Meaty Portions.- 5. The Sameness and Difference of Apes.- 6. Reimagining Animals, Reimagining Ourselves.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Zusatzinfo	XI, 245 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
Schlagworte	Animalisation • Animal Studies • Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics • Bioethics • Biography, Literature & Literary studies • Biography, Literature & Literary studies • Contemporary literature • ethics • Fiction • Fiction & Related Items • Fiction & Related Items • human-animal relationships • Literary criticism • Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Veterinary Medicine • Western human concepts
ISBN-10	3-319-55931-1 / 3319559311
ISBN-13	978-3-319-55931-5 / 9783319559315
Zustand	Neuware