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Animal stories [[electronic resource] ] : narrating across species lines / / Susan McHugh



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Autore: McHugh Susan, Ph. D. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Animal stories [[electronic resource] ] : narrating across species lines / / Susan McHugh Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
Disciplina: 813/.6080362
Soggetto topico: American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Animals in literature
Human-animal relationships in literature
Agent (Philosophy) in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: Animal Narratives and Social Agency -- pt. I Intersubjective Fictions -- 1.Seeing Eyes/Private Eyes: Service Dogs and Detective Fictions -- 2.Velvet Revolutions: Girl-Horse Stories -- pt. II Intercorporeal Narratives -- 3.Breeding Narratives of Intimacy: Shaggy Dogs, Shagging Sheep -- 4.The Fictions and Futures of Farm Animals: Semi-Living to "Animalacra" Pig Tales.
Sommario/riassunto: Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory, ""Animal Stories"" argues that key creative developments in narrative form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and science in the past century. Susan McHugh traces representational patterns specific to modern and contemporary fictions of cross-species companionship through a variety of media--including novels, films, fine art, television shows, and digital games--to show how nothing less than the futures of all species life is at stake in narrative forms. Mc
Titolo autorizzato: Animal stories  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4729-5
0-8166-7698-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781631203321
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Serie: Posthumanities ; ; 15.