The animal part : human and other animals in the poetic imagination / Mark Payne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payne, Mark (Mark Edward)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in literature.

Philosophical anthropology in literature.

Physical Description:

164 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Contents:

Imagining animals

The abject animal

The beast in pain: abjection and aggression in Archilochus and William Carlos Williams

Destruction and creation: the work of men and animals in Gustave Flaubert, Gerald Manley Hopkins, and Ezra Pound

Becoming something else

Beyond the pale: joining the society of animals in Aristophanes, Herman Melville, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Changing bodies: being and becoming an animal in Semonides, Ovid, and H.P. Lovecraft

I do not know what it is I am like.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780226650845

0226650847

OCLC:

465681158