LEADER 00827nam0-22003251i-450- 001 990000950360403321 010 $a9971-978-64-4 035 $a000095036 035 $aFED01000095036 035 $a(Aleph)000095036FED01 035 $a000095036 100 $a20000920d1986----km-y0itay50------ba 101 0 $aeng 200 1 $aInflationary Cosmology$fL.F. Abbott, So-Young Pi 210 $aSingapore$cWorld Scientific$d1986 610 0 $aAstronomia 610 0 $aAstrofisica 610 0 $aCosmologia 676 $a520 676 $a523 700 1$aAbbott,$bL. F.$044123 702 1$aPi,$bSo-Young 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gRICA$2UNIMARC 901 $aBK 912 $a990000950360403321 952 $a19-148$b13841$fFI1 959 $aFI1 996 $aInflationary Cosmology$9357390 997 $aUNINA DB $aING01 LEADER 04592oam 22006974a 450 001 9910524846103321 005 20241204165300.0 010 $a0-8018-3252-7 010 $a1-4214-3132-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000010460900 035 $a(OCoLC)1123886721 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78136 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88846 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29138864 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29138864 035 $a(oapen)doab88846 035 $a(OCoLC)1549517685 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010460900 100 $a20190830d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeasts of the modern imagination $eDarwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence /$fMargot Norris 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 265 pages :)$cillustrations) 300 $aOriginally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1985 311 08$a1-4214-3133-5 311 08$a1-4214-3026-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: The biocentric tradition -- 2. Darwin's reading of nature -- 3. Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the problem of mimesis -- 5. Nietzsche's Ecce homo: Behold the beast -- 6. Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. The ontology of D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr -- 9. The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. Conclusion: The biocentric tradition in context. 330 $aOriginally published in 1985. Beasts of the Modern Imagination explores a specific tradition in modern thought and art: the critique of anthropocentrism at the hands of "beasts"?writers whose works constitute animal gestures or acts of fatality. It is not a study of animal imagery, although the works that Margot Norris explores present us with apes, horses, bulls, and mice who appear in the foreground of fiction, not as the tropes of allegory or fable, but as narrators and protagonists appropriating their animality amid an anthropocentric universe. These beasts are finally the masks of the human animals who create them, and the textual strategies that bring them into being constitute another version of their struggle. The focus of this study is a small group of thinkers, writers, and artists who create as the animal?not like the animal, in imitation of the animal?but with their animality speaking. The author treats Charles Darwin as the founder of this tradition, as the naturalist whose shattering conclusions inevitably turned back on him and subordinated him, the rational man, to the very Nature he studied. Friedrich Nietzsche heeded the advice implicit in his criticism of David Strauss and used Darwinian ideas as critical tools to interrogate the status of man as a natural being. He also responded to the implications of his own animality for his writing by transforming his work into bestial acts and gestures. The third, and last, generation of these creative animals includes Franz Kafka, the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and D. H. Lawrence. In exploring these modern philosophers of the animal and its instinctual life, the author inevitably rebiologizes them even against efforts to debiologize thinkers whose works can be studied profitably for their models of signification. 606 $aPsychoanalysis and literature 606 $aLiterature and science 606 $aArt, Modern$y20th century 606 $aMimesis in literature 606 $aAnimals in literature 606 $aAnthropomorphism 606 $aHuman beings$xAnimal nature 606 $aComparative literature$xThemes, motives 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and literature. 615 0$aLiterature and science. 615 0$aArt, Modern 615 0$aMimesis in literature. 615 0$aAnimals in literature. 615 0$aAnthropomorphism. 615 0$aHuman beings$xAnimal nature. 615 0$aComparative literature$xThemes, motives. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.93384 700 $aNorris$b Margot 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524846103321 996 $aBeasts of the Modern Imagination$92676754 997 $aUNINA