Author : Frederike Middelhoff
Release : 2019
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Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Texts, Animals, Environments by : Frederike Middelhoff
Download or read book Texts, Animals, Environments written by Frederike Middelhoff. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texts, Animals, Environments. Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics probes the multiple links between ecocriticism and animal studies, assessing the relations between animals, environments and poetics. While ecocriticism usually relies on a relational approach to explore phenomena related to the environment or ecology more broadly, animal studies tends to examine individual or species-specific aspects. As a consequence, ecocriticism concentrates on ecopoetical, animal studies on zoopoetical elements and modes of representation in literature (and the arts more generally). Bringing key concepts of ecocriticism and animal studies into dialogue, the volume explores new ways of thinking about and reading texts, animals, and environments - not as separate entities but as part of the same collective.