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Author : Chris Danta
Release : 2018-07-19
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Animal Fables after Darwin by : Chris Danta
Download or read book Animal Fables after Darwin written by Chris Danta. This book was released on 2018-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.
Author : Chris Danta
Release : 2018-07-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 571/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Animal Fables after Darwin by : Chris Danta
Download or read book Animal Fables after Darwin written by Chris Danta. This book was released on 2018-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu.
Author : Devin Griffiths
Release : 2022-12-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 173/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis After Darwin by : Devin Griffiths
Download or read book After Darwin written by Devin Griffiths. This book was released on 2022-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the philosophy and writings of Charles Darwin and their contribution to theories of philosophy, evolution, and beauty.
Author : Kaori Nagai
Release : 2020-07-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 935/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Imperial Beast Fables by : Kaori Nagai
Download or read book Imperial Beast Fables written by Kaori Nagai. This book was released on 2020-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book coins the term ‘imperial beast fable’ to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquing them. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth century and today.
Author : Susan McHugh
Release : 2020-11-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 734/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature by : Susan McHugh
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature written by Susan McHugh. This book was released on 2020-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals, animality, and human-animal relations in literature. To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date, its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English, while also accommodating emergent discussions of the full range of media and contexts with which literary studies engages, especially film and critical theory. User-friendly language, references, even suggestions for further readings are included to help newcomers to the field understand how it has taken shape primarily through recent decades. To further aid teachers, sections are organized by conventions of periodization, and chapters address a range of canonical and popular texts. Bookended by sections devoted to the field’s conceptual foundations and new directions, the volume is designed to set an agenda for literary animal studies for decades to come.
