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Poetry and Animals

2018-03-06 Nature
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Release : 2018-03-06
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Book Synopsis Poetry and Animals by : Onno Oerlemans

Download or read book Poetry and Animals written by Onno Oerlemans. This book was released on 2018-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals. Poetry, through its great variety and its inherently experimental nature, has embraced the multifaceted nature of animals to cross, blur, and reimagine the boundaries between human and animal. In Poetry and Animals, Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. He presents a taxonomy of kinds of animal poems, breaking down the categories and binary oppositions at the root of human thinking about animals. The book considers several different types of poetry: allegorical poems, poems about “the animal” broadly conceived, poems about species of animal, poems about individual animals or the animal as individual, and poems about hybrids and hybridity. Through careful readings of dozens of poems that reveal generous and often sympathetic approaches to recognizing and valuing animals’ difference and similarity, Oerlemans demonstrates how the forms and modes of poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide.

Literature and Animal Studies

2016-06-17 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-06-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Literature and Animal Studies by : Mario Ortiz-Robles

Download or read book Literature and Animal Studies written by Mario Ortiz-Robles. This book was released on 2016-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.

The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature

2020-11-25 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-11-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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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.

Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain

2021-05-27 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2021-05-27
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Book Synopsis Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain by : Laurence Talairach

Download or read book Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Laurence Talairach. This book was released on 2021-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture

2016-01-12 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-01-12
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Book Synopsis Animals in Irish Literature and Culture by : Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Download or read book Animals in Irish Literature and Culture written by Kathryn Kirkpatrick. This book was released on 2016-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders.

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