Animals in detective fiction / / edited by Ruth Hawthorn, John Miller

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 pages)
• Disciplina: 050
• Soggetto topico: Animals in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): HawthornRuth; MillerJohn
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Origins and Evolutions: The Brutal History of Detective Fiction -- Origins -- Evolutions -- Animals in Detective Fiction -- Works Cited -- Ontologies -- Tigers, Criminals, Rogues: Animality in Dickens' Detective Fiction -- Tigers and Rogues -- Animal Expressions -- Animals before the Law -- Works Cited -- Quantum Entanglements in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Works Cited -- Wolverines, Werewolves and Demon Dogs: Animality, Criminality and Classification in James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet -- "Werewolf Murder": Identity, Monstrosity and "Otherness" in The Black Dahlia -- The "Wolverine Monster": Destabilising the Human-Animal Binary -- Works Cited -- Ethics -- The Psittacine Witness: Parrot Talk and Animal Ethics in Earl Derr Biggers' The Chinese Parrot and Earl Stanley Gardner's The Case of the Perjured Parrot -- Enlightenment Parrots -- Grief and Race in The Chinese Parrot -- The Logic of the Commodity in The Case of the Perjured Parrot -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Ecology, Capability and Companion Species: Conflicting Ethics in Nevada Barr's Blood Lure -- Conventions and Policies -- Ecological Ethics and the Image of the Species -- Capability Ethics and the Image of Fear -- Companion Species Ethics and the Image of Brother Bear -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Laboratory Tech-Noir: Genre, Narrative Form, and the Literary Model Organism in Jay Hosking's Three Years with the Rat -- Grace, 2006: The Model Organism, Scientific Epistemology, and Mystery -- John, 2007: Corporeal Equivalence and Empathy -- Buddy, 2008: Beyond Laboratory Labour as Model Organism Agency -- The Other Side: Sacrificial Companionship and Mourning -- Works Cited -- Reptiles, Buddhism, and Detection in John Burdett's Bangkok 8 -- Introduction -- Ethics and Orientalism. ; Detection, Animal Reincarnation, Karma -- Bangkok 8 and Reptiles -- Enlightened Detection -- Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Politics -- Animals, Biopolitics, and Sensation Fiction: M. E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret -- Works Cited -- "The Motto of the Mollusc": Patricia Highsmith and the Semiotics of Snails -- Snail Watching: Highsmith and the Tradition of Animals in Detective Stories -- Living to Build One's House: The Value of Snails in Deep Water -- Coda: The Mollusc Lives On -- Works Cited -- "Before the white man came, when animals still talked": Colonial Creatures in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and Adrian C. Louis's Skins -- Introduction: We Are All Animals -- "The tree grows heavy with owls": Animal Mythology in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer -- "Remember, human beings don't control anything. Spirits do": Trickster Discourse in Adrian C. Louis's Skins -- Conclusion: We Will Always Be Animals -- Works Cited -- Forms -- Aping the Classics: Terry Pratchett's Satirical Animals and Detective Fiction -- I: "The Curious Incident of the Orang-utan in the Night-time" -- II: The Rats' Chamber and Animals as Metaphor -- III: The Werewolf and the Monkey-Brain: Beyond the Binary -- IV: Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Animal Image and Human Logos in Graphic Detective Fiction -- Theriocephalic Detectives: Animal Image in Blacksad and Grandville -- Hermeneutic Animals: Human Logos in Graphic Detective Fiction -- Works Cited -- "As easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket": Animetaphor in Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Lethem -- Chandler's Noir Animals -- Lethem's Evolved Animals -- The Nietzschean Animal and Anthropocene Noir -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Animals in detective fiction
• ISBN: 3-031-09241-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910634041403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Ser.