Reading slaughter : abattoir fictions, space, and empathy in late modernity / / Sune Borkfelt
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Borkfelt Sune
|
| Titolo: |
Reading slaughter : abattoir fictions, space, and empathy in late modernity / / Sune Borkfelt
|
| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 894.36 |
| Soggetto topico: | Animals in literature |
| Human-animal relationships in literature | |
| Slaughtering and slaughter-houses - In literature | |
| Slaughtering and slaughter-houses - Social aspects | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities -- 2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter -- 3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir -- 4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban -- 5. Ruralities and the Abattoir -- 6. Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities -- 7. Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse -- 8. Coda. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reading Slaughter |
| ISBN: | 9783030989156 |
| 9783030989149 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910568238603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, . 2634-6346