Representing the modern animal in culture / edited by Jeanne Dubino, Ziba Rashidian, and Andrew Smyth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dubino, Jeanne, 1959- editor.

Rashidian, Ziba, 1958- editor.

Smyth, Andrew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Animals and civilization.

Physical Description:

xii, 254 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

"Representing the Modern Animal in Culture is a collection of twelve essays that investigate representations of animals and of the lives they share with humans. Starting with the eighteenth century but focusing on primarily the nineteenth century through the present day, these essays two sets of differences: the multifarious modes of representations that have materialized from the publication of Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, and the range of animal lives, and human-animal relationships, that have emerged over this time. The collection is divided into three sections that focus on some of the most noteworthy relationships and prototypical representations and themes over the past three centuries: 1. depictions of domesticated animals, with their emphasis on nonfiction and identity; 2. imaginative reconstructions, with their focus on authors' self-conscious acts of creation in the age of Darwin; and 3. contemporary modes, with their interest in the posthuman and their specific aim to both cross and merge the animal-human divide"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Jeanne Dubino

Part I. Identity: lives with domestic animals in the modern era

The noble brute: contradictions in equine ideology, East and West / Donna Landry

Paying tribute to the dogs: Turkish strays in nineteenth-century British travel texts / Jeanne Dubino

Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne's menagerie / Kathryn Kirkpatrick

Pets in memoir / Kevin Ferguson

Part II. Antropomorphism: animals as metaphor in the age of Darwin

Darwin's ants: evolutionary theory and anthropomorphic fallacy / Alexis Harley

Cats, rats, apes, and crabs: T. S. Eliot among the animals / Emily Essert

The fable, the moral, and the animal: reconsidering the fable in animal studies with Marianne Moore's elephants / Joshua Schuster

Untimely metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and animal flânerie / Caroline Pollentier

Part III. The posthuman: reconceiving nonhuman animals in the contemporary world

Splicing genes with postmodern teens: The Hunger Games and the hybrid imagination / Andrew Smyth

On the wings of a butterfly: bare life and bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood / Ziba Rashidian

Being out of time: animal gods in contemporary extinction fictions / Susan McHugh

Postcolonial critique in a multispecies world / Neel Ahuja.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137428646

1137428643

OCLC:

881656020

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