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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825862003321

Autore

McHugh Susan, Ph. D.

Titolo

Animal stories : narrating across species lines / / Susan McHugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4529-4729-5

0-8166-7698-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Posthumanities ; ; v. 15

Disciplina

813/.6080362

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Animals in literature

Human-animal relationships in literature

Agent (Philosophy) in literature

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

Machine generated contents note: Animal Narratives and Social Agency -- pt. I Intersubjective Fictions -- 1.Seeing Eyes/Private Eyes: Service Dogs and Detective Fictions -- 2.Velvet Revolutions: Girl-Horse Stories -- pt. II Intercorporeal Narratives -- 3.Breeding Narratives of Intimacy: Shaggy Dogs, Shagging Sheep -- 4.The Fictions and Futures of Farm Animals: Semi-Living to "Animalacra" Pig Tales.

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory, ""Animal Stories"" argues that key creative developments in narrative form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and science in the past century. Susan McHugh traces representational patterns specific to modern and contemporary fictions of cross-species companionship through a variety of media--including novels, films, fine art, television shows, and digital games--to show how nothing less than the futures of all species life is at stake in narrative forms. Mc