1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910580195803321

Autore

Gurrin Cathal

Titolo

LSC '22 : proceedings of the 5th Annual Lifelog Search Challenge : June 27-30, 2022, Newark, NJ, USA / / Cathal Gurrin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : The Association for Computing Machinery, , [2022]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

028.7071

Soggetti

Information retrieval - Social aspects

Interactive multimedia - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781252503321

Autore

Brown Laura <1949->

Titolo

Homeless dogs & melancholy apes [[electronic resource] ] : humans and other animals in the modern literary imagination / / Laura Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, N.Y., : Cornell University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8014-6216-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Classificazione

18.05

18.06

Disciplina

823/.009362

Soggetti

English literature - History and criticism

American literature - History and criticism

Animals in literature

Human-animal relationships in literature

Pets in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Speculative space : the rise of the animal in the modern imagination -- Mirror scene : the orangutan, the ancients, and the cult of sensibility -- Immoderate love : the lady and the lapdog -- Violent intimacy : the monkey and the marriage plot -- Dog narrative : itinerancy, diversity, and the Elysium for dogs.

Sommario/riassunto

In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-kind, and the nonhuman animal has thus played a significant role in imaginative literature from that period to the present day.In Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, Laura Brown shows how the literary works of the eighteenth century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, affording a uniquely flexible perspective on difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence. Writers of this first age of the rise of the animal in the modern literary imagination used their nonhuman characters-from the lapdogs of Alexander Pope and his contemporaries to the ill-mannered monkey of Frances Burney's Evelina or the ape-like Yahoos of Jonathan Swift-to explore questions of human identity and self-definition, human love and the experience of intimacy, and human diversity and the boundaries of convention. Later literary works continued to use imaginary animals to question human conventions of form and thought.Brown pursues this engagement with animal-kind into the nineteenth century-through works by Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning-and into the twentieth, with a concluding account of Paul Auster's dog-novel, Timbuktu. Auster's work suggests that-today as in the eighteenth century-imagining other animals opens up a potential for dissonance that creates distinctive opportunities for human creativity.