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Willmott Glenn <1963-> |
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Modern animalism : habitats of scarcity and wealth in comics and literature / / Glenn Willmott |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (155 p.) |
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Primitivism in literature |
Economics in literature |
Ecology in literature |
Scarcity |
Modernism (Literature) |
Postmodernism (Literature) |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Modern Habitats -- Chapter Two. Problem Creatures -- Chapter Three. Surviving History -- Chapter Four. Growing Wonder -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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From T. S. Eliot's Sweeney to C. S. Lewis's Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these 'modern primitive' figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters? Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal 'problem creature' in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present - including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, and Morrison. Drawing on a wide range of |
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scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish. |
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