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

• Autore: McHugh Susan, Ph. D.
• 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
• ISBN: 1-4529-4729-5; 0-8166-7698-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781631203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Posthumanities ; ; 15.