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The aesthetics of care : on the literary treatment of animals / Josephine Donovan.
Van Pelt Library PN56.A64 .D66 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donovan, Josephine, 1941- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals in literature.
- Animal welfare in literature.
- Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Ecocriticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The aesthetics of modernity
- Willa Cather's aesthetic transitions
- The aesthetics of care
- Animal ethics and literary criticism
- Tolstoy's animals
- Local-color animals
- Coetzee's animals
- Metaphysical meat: "becoming men" and animal sacrifice
- The transgressive sublime, katharsis, and animal sacrifice
- Caring to hear, caring to see: art as emergence
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Donovan, Josephine, 1941- author. Aesthetics of care.
- ISBN:
- 9781501317194
- 1501317199
- 9781501317200
- 1501317202
- OCLC:
- 935674811
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