LEADER 04200nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910785485303321 005 20210518021658.0 010 $a1-282-89476-5 010 $a9786612894763 010 $a0-226-65085-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226650852 035 $a(CKB)2670000000056203 035 $a(EBL)602619 035 $a(OCoLC)676698571 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411843 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12164355 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411843 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10366301 035 $a(PQKB)11222516 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117464 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC602619 035 $a(DE-B1597)523120 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226650852 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL602619 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10425099 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL289476 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000056203 100 $a20091104d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|uu|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe animal part$b[electronic resource] $ehuman and other animals in the poetic imagination /$fMark Payne 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (175 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-65084-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Beast in Pain: Abjection and Aggression in Archilochus and William Carlos Williams --$t2. Destruction and Creation: The Work of Men and Animals in Gustave Flaubert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Ezra Pound --$t3. Beyond the Pale: Joining the Society of Animals in Aristophanes, Herman Melville, and Louis- Ferdinand Céline --$t4. Changing Bodies: Being and Becoming an Animal in Semonides, Ovid, and H. P. Lovecraft --$tEpilogue. I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like --$tReferences --$tIndex of Humans --$tIndex of Other Animals 330 $aHow can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if human beings could see themselves as animals see them. The Animal Part also makes substantial contributions to the emerging discourse of the posthumanities. Payne offers detailed accounts of the tenuousness of the idea of the human in ancient literature and philosophy and then goes on to argue that close reading must remain a central practice of literary study if posthumanism is to articulate its own prehistory. For it is only through fine-grained literary interpretation that we can recover the poetic thinking about animals that has always existed alongside philosophical constructions of the human. In sum, The Animal Part marks a breakthrough in animal studies and offers a significant contribution to comparative poetics. 606 $aAnimals in literature 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology in literature 610 $ahumanity, animal behavior, literature, ancient greece, modernism, ezra pound, william carlos williams, suffering, relationships, posthumanism, philosophy, beast, pain, archilochus, aggression, abjection, destruction, creation, gerald manley hopkins, gustave flaubert, society, louis-ferdinand celine, herman melville, aristophanes, transformation, transmogrification, lovecraft, ovid, semonides, nonfiction. 615 0$aAnimals in literature. 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology in literature. 676 $a809/.93362 700 $aPayne$b Mark$g(Mark Edward)$0557145 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785485303321 996 $aThe animal part$93854793 997 $aUNINA