Animals and agency [[electronic resource] ] : an interdisciplinary exploration / / edited by Sarah E. McFarland Ryan Hediger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778518803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009
• ISBN: 1-282-40130-0; 9786612401305; 90-474-2924-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Collana: Human animal studies, , 1573-4226 ; ; v. 8
• Altri autori (Persone): McFarlandSarah E; HedigerRyan
• Disciplina: 179/.3
• Soggetti: Animal welfare
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Approaching the agency of other animals : an introduction / Sarah E. McFarland and Ryan Hediger -- Animals as agents -- Whale agency : affordances and acts of resistance in captive environments / Traci Warkentin -- The racehorse as protagonist : agency, independence, and improvisation / Shelly R. Scott -- Consuming Timothy Treadwell : redefining nonhuman agency in light of Herzog's Grizzly man / David Lulka -- Dancing penguins and a pretentious raccoon : animated animals and 21st century environmentalism / Sarah E. McFarland -- Speaking through animals -- No human hand : the ourang-outang in Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Stephanie Rowe -- Sled dogs of the American North : on masculinity, whiteness, and human freedom / Rebecca Onion -- The slave whisperer rides the frontier : horseface minstrelsy in the western / J.J. Clark -- Speaking for animals -- Representing the experimental animal : competing voices in victorian culture / Jed Mayer -- Forms of life : the search for the simian self in ape language experiments / Rebecca Bishop -- Animals, agency, and absence : a discourse analysis of institutional animal care and use committee meetings / Debra Durham and Debra Merskin -- Humanimals and other marginal species -- "To abandon the colonial animal" : "race," animals, and the feral child in Kipling's Mowgli stories / Dipika Nath -- At the top of the hierarchical ladder : were-animals in ; Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and chocolate and Patrice Kindl's Owl in love / Cat Yampell -- The microgeography of infestation in relationship spaces / Matthew Candelaria -- Crossing over : (dis)ability, contingent agency, and death in the marginal genre work of Temple Grandin and Jim Harrison / Ryan Hediger -- Envoi towards a philosophy of the polyp / Laurence Simmons.
• Sommario/riassunto: While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while considering key representations of animal agency in literature; Section III analyzes animals as mediators and as conveyances of human-to-human communication;and Section IV investigates the agency of beings who defy conventional species categories. The Envoi demonstrates how the microscopic polyp is interwoven into notions of agency and mythical superagency. This volume's interdisciplinary explorations press hard on issues of agency to open up space for more questions about how we can understand relationships between the human and the nonhuman.

Crossing boundaries at medieval universities [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Spencer E. Young

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790038703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-12039-9; 9786613120397; 90-04-19216-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Collana: Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, , 0926-6070 ; ; v. 36
• Altri autori (Persone): YoungSpencer E
• Disciplina: 378.4/0902
• Soggetti: Universities and colleges - Europe - History; Education, Medieval; Middle Ages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Essays originally presented at a conference held in Madison, Wisconsin in 2008.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / S. E. Young -- Crossing Philosophical Boundaries C. 1150–C. 1250 / David Luscombe -- Scholastic Theology At Paris Around 1200 / Marcia L. Colish -- Reshaping The Genre: Literary Trends In Philosophical Theology In The Fourteenth Century / Chris Schabel -- Nominalism In Cologne: The Student Notebook Of The Dominican Servatius Fanckel With An Edition Of A Disputatio Vacantialis Held On July 14, 1480 “Utrum In Deo Uno Simplicissimo Sit Trium Personarum Realis Distinctio” / Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen -- Cognitive Theory And The Relation Between The Scholastic And Mystical Modes Of Theology: Why Denys The Carthusian Outlawed Durandus Of Saint-Pourçain / Kent Emery, Jr. -- A Skewed View: The Achievement Of Late Medieval Science And Philosophy As Seen From The Renaissance / John E. Murdoch -- Medicine And Arts In Thirteenth-Century Paris / Michael R. McVaugh -- Medicine And Theology / Danielle Jacquart -- Lex Naturalis And Ius Naturale / Kenneth Pennington -- When The Devil Went To Law School: Canon Law And Theology In The Fourteenth Century / Karl Shoemaker -- Antichrist Goes To The University: The De Victoria Christi Contra Antichristum Of Hugo De Novocastro, OFM ; (1315/1319) / Robert E. Lerner -- The University Of Heidelberg And The Jews: Founding And Financing The Needs Of A New University / Jürgen Miethke -- List Of Contributors / S. E. Young -- Index Nominum / S. E. Young -- Index Locorum / S. E. Young.
• Sommario/riassunto: At medieval universities, boundaries often served to reinforce divisions among competing groups and methods. Yet the crossing of these boundaries could also provide the basis for fruitful exchanges. The essays in this volume, contributed by specialists from Europe and North America in the study of medieval history, philosophy, theology, medicine and law, explore various ways in which boundaries between disciplines, faculties and between town and gown were both created and crossed at this new institutional form. Originally presented at the 2008 conference held in Madison, Wisconsin, they demonstrate in particular the richness and vitality of intellectual life at European universities both before and after the mid-thirteenth century. Contributors are David Luscombe, Marcia L. Colish, Chris Schabel, Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen, Kent Emery, Jr., John E. Murdoch, Michael R. McVaugh, Danielle Jacquart, Kenneth Pennington, Karl Shoemaker, Robert E. Lerner, and Jürgen Miethke.