Posthumanist perspectives on literary and cultural animals / / Krishanu Maiti, editor

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Disciplina: 813.54
• Soggetto topico: Posthumanism in literature; Animals in literature; Transhumanisme; Antropologia filosòfica; Literatura
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Persona (resp. second.): MaitiKrishanu
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor and Contributors -- List of Figures -- Animals in Posthumanist Thought: An Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The State of Animal Studies -- 3 The 'Animal Turn' -- 4 Different Ways of Thinking of Animals -- 5 On this Collected Volume: Conclusion -- References -- Contestation Over Species Hierarchy and Categorization -- Can Natural Theology Rethink Its Relationship with Non-human Animals? -- 1 Introduction: Animals in the Biblical Creation Account -- 2 Animals Before Domestication -- 3 Creation -- 4 'Animal' Nature -- 5 Contingency and Paradox -- 6 Conclusion: Being Animals -- References -- Reassessing the Predator: Representations of Predatory Animals in John Vaillant's The Tiger and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nonhuman and Human Predators -- 2.1 Empathizing and Learning with Predatory Animals -- 2.2 Exploiting Dead Animal Bodies -- 2.3 Predatory Animals and the Environment -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Birds of a Feather: Interspecies Ethics and the Fate of Liminal Companion Animals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Conclusion -- References -- Animal (Re)constructions -- Posthuman, Postanimal? Nonhuman Intelligence and Intentionality in Three Short Stories by H. G. Wells -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Three Nonhuman Narratives -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- The Snake Has a Face: Levinas, Mondo, and the Suffering Non-human Animal -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Levinas and the Dwelling -- 3 The Non-Human and the Ethical Command -- 4 A Dog's World -- 5 The Language of the Eyes -- 6 World and Soul -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Bowers of Persuasion: Toward a Posthuman Visual Rhetoric -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Visual Rhetoric and Nonhuman Animals -- 3 The Bowers of the Birds -- 4 Flowers and Fruit and Fungus-Oh, My!: Analysis of the Bowers -- 4.1 Aesthetics and Influence. ; 4.2 Cultural Preferences -- 4.3 Communicative Purpose -- 5 What Does It All Mean?: Implications for Posthuman Visual Rhetoric -- References -- Jacques Derrida and the Autobiographical (Non-human) Animal: An Analysis of (False) Animal Autobiographies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is an Animal Autobiography? -- 3 The White Bone: Elephants and Religion -- 4 Translating Animal Languages -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Interspecies Relationalities -- "Neigh Way, Jose": Posthuman Communication in BoJack Horseman -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Queer Aesthetics in Posthuman Animation -- 3 Relating to Animals, the Failure of Language -- 4 Troubling the Pastoral (or Perhaps Not) -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Understanding Across Differences in Patrick Chamoiseau's Les neuf consciences du Malfini and in Dany Laferrière's Autoportrait de Paris avec Chat -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Amplifying with Animals -- 3 The Style of Telling -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Human-Animal Relationality: Artistic Travels Through a Subculture's Imaginations -- 1 Historical Bestiaries: An Introduction -- 2 A Contemporary Bestiary -- 3 Reading Art-Reading Theory -- 4 Moral Geographies -- 5 Knights, Dragons and Others -- 6 Beuys' Interspecies Performances -- 7 Ownership and Companionship -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- The Animal Survives: Sarah Orne Jewett's A White Heron Intervenes as Survivor of the Industrialized World -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jewett's "A White Heron" -- 3 Sylvia's Woods -- 4 The Hunter Naturalist -- 5 Sylvia's Ascension -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Intersectionality-Gender and the Nonhuman -- Into the Woods: The Creaturely and the Queer in 20th Century US American Hunting Narratives -- 1 Introduction: Men in the Woods -- 2 Into the Big Woods: Wilderness Masculinity and Its Creaturely Others in William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. ; 3 Are We not Men?: Mailer and Dickey Queer the Woods -- 4 Queering the Outdoors in Why Are We in Vietnam? -- 5 Queer Predators and the Return of the Frontier in James Dickey's Deliverance -- 6 Conclusion: The Creaturely and the Queer -- References -- Madness, Femininity, Vegetarianism: Post-anthropocentric Representations in Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Agnieszka Holland's Spoor -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Rebellious Femininity and Animal Rights Activism -- 3 The "Madness" of Film Adaptation -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- The Bird and Eye: Kinship with Birds as Proto-ecofeminist Discourse of Liberation in George Meredith's The Egoist -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Struggle to Reach Avian Kinship: Clara -- 3 Avian Metaphors as Mockery: Willoughby -- 4 Conclusion -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals
• ISBN: 3-030-76159-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910502663803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Second Language Learning and Teaching