Modern animalism : habitats of scarcity and wealth in comics and literature / / Glenn Willmott
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Willmott Glenn <1963->
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| Titolo: |
Modern animalism : habitats of scarcity and wealth in comics and literature / / Glenn Willmott
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| Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (155 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 809/.911 |
| Soggetto topico: | Primitivism in literature |
| Economics in literature | |
| Ecology in literature | |
| Scarcity | |
| Modernism (Literature) | |
| Postmodernism (Literature) | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Modern Habitats -- Chapter Two. Problem Creatures -- Chapter Three. Surviving History -- Chapter Four. Growing Wonder -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | From T. S. Eliot's Sweeney to C. S. Lewis's Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these 'modern primitive' figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters? Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal 'problem creature' in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present - including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, and Morrison. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Modern animalism |
| ISBN: | 1-4426-9558-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453239003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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