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UNINA9910459073203321 |
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Autore |
Wolfe Cary |
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Animal rites [[electronic resource] ] : American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory / / Cary Wolfe ; foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2003 |
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1-282-93295-0 |
9786612932953 |
0-226-90512-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Animal rights - Philosophy |
Species - Philosophy |
Humanism |
Human-animal relationships in literature |
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART One -- PART Two -- Conclusion. Postmodern Ethics, the Question of the Animal, and the Imperatives of Posthumanist Theory -- Notes -- Index |
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In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal." |
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UNINA9910458759403321 |
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Autore |
Roderick David |
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The Americans / / David Roderick |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (89 pages) |
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Collana |
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English poetry |
American poetry |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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David Roderick's second book, The Americans, pledges its allegiance to dirt. And to laptops. And to swimming pools, the Kennedys, a flower in a lapel, plastic stars hanging from the ceiling of a child's room, churning locusts, a jar of blood, a gleam of sun on the wing of a plane. His poems swarm with life. They also ask an unanswerable question: What does it mean to be an American? Restless against the borders we build--between countries, between each other--Roderick roams from place to place in order to dig into the messy, political, idealistic and ultimately inexplicable idea of American-ness. His rangy, inquisitive lyrics stitch together a patchwork flag, which he stakes alongside all the noise of our construction, our obsessive building and making, while he imagines the fate of a nation built on desire. |
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