Pubbl/distr/stampa	Johannesburg : , : Wits University Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xv, 334 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	809.933553
Soggetto topico	African literature - History and criticism Folk literature Ecocriticism - Africa, Sub-Saharan Environmentalism in literature Environmentalism - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Animals in literature
ISBN	1-86814-914-5 1-86814-916-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910793034303321

Autore	Allen Daniel (Daniel Nathan)
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Reaktion Books, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (186 p.)
Disciplina	599.769
Collana	Animal
Soggetto topico	Otters Human-animal relationships Otters - Conservation Hunting Fur Mammals in art Animals in literature Animals in motion pictures Animals and civilization
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-13377-6 9786613133779 1-86189-893-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introducing the otter -- Folklore, fables, tradition and the otter -- Commercial otter hunting -- Otter hunting for sport -- The literary otter -- The otter on screen -- Protecting the otter.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461181603321

Autore	Schiesari Juliana
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (143 p.)
Disciplina	809/.93362
Collana	Flashpoints
Soggetto topico	Animals in literature Human-animal relationships in literature Pets in literature Sex (Psychology) in literature Social structure in literature Social values in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-42595-5 9786613425959 0-520-95231-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Re-Visions of Diana in Edith Wharton -- 2. Colette at Home -- 3. Romancing the Beast: J. R. Ackerley's Dog Days and the Meaning of Sex -- Notes -- Bibliography
Altri titoli varianti	Pets, bodies, and desire in four modern writers
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465197903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (192 pages)
Disciplina	813.54
Collana	Second Language Learning and Teaching Issues in Literature and Culture
Soggetto topico	Posthumanism in literature Animals in literature Transhumanisme Antropologia filosòfica Literatura
Soggetto genere / forma	Llibres electrònics
ISBN	3-030-76159-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910502663803321

Autore	Borkfelt Sune
Edizione	[1st ed. 2022.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (284 pages)
Disciplina	894.36
Collana	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Soggetto topico	Animals in literature Human-animal relationships in literature Slaughtering and slaughter-houses - In literature Slaughtering and slaughter-houses - Social aspects
ISBN	9783030989156 9783030989149
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910568238603321