03906nam 2200685Ia 450 991078551730332120200520144314.00-231-51856-010.7312/rohm14506(CKB)2670000000241351(EBL)908731(OCoLC)818856325(DE-B1597)459276(OCoLC)1013938125(OCoLC)979904230(DE-B1597)9780231518567(Au-PeEL)EBL908731(CaPaEBR)ebr10595234(CaONFJC)MIL690480(MiAaPQ)EBC908731(EXLCZ)99267000000024135120080131d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierStalking the subject[electronic resource] modernism and the animal /Carrie RohmanNew York Columbia University Pressc20091 online resource (209 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-14507-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-183) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Animal Among Others -- 2. Imperialism and Disavowal -- 3. Facing the Animal -- 4. Recuperating the Animal -- 5. Revising the Human -- Conclusion. Animal Studies, Ethics, and the Humanities -- Notes -- Works Cited -- IndexHuman and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a "human" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity. The Island of Dr. Moreau embodies a Darwinian nightmare of the evolutionary continuum; The Croquet Player thematizes the dialectic between evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; and Women in Love, St. Mawr, and Nightwood all refuse to project animality onto others, inverting the traditional humanist position by valuing animal consciousness. A novel treatment of the animal in literature, Stalking the Subject provides vital perspective on modernism's most compelling intellectual and philosophical issues.Animals in literatureAnimalsSymbolic aspectsEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismEthics in literatureEvolution (Biology) in literatureHuman-animal relationships in literatureModernism (Literature)Great BritainAnimals in literature.AnimalsSymbolic aspects.English literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Ethics in literature.Evolution (Biology) in literature.Human-animal relationships in literature.Modernism (Literature)820.9/362Rohman Carrie1507039MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785517303321Stalking the subject3737499UNINA