Animal stories : narrating across species lines / Susan McHugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McHugh, Susan (Susan Bridget)

Series:

Posthumanities ; 15.

Posthumanities ; v. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Animals in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Agent (Philosophy) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory, ""Animal Stories"" argues that key creative developments in narrative form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and science in the past century. Susan McHugh traces representational patterns specific to modern and contemporary fictions of cross-species companionship through a variety of media--including novels, films, fine art, television shows, and digital games--to show how nothing less than the futures of all species life is at stake in narrative forms. Mc

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Animal Narratives and Social Agency

pt. I Intersubjective Fictions

1.Seeing Eyes/Private Eyes: Service Dogs and Detective Fictions

2.Velvet Revolutions: Girl-Horse Stories

pt. II Intercorporeal Narratives

3.Breeding Narratives of Intimacy: Shaggy Dogs, Shagging Sheep

4.The Fictions and Futures of Farm Animals: Semi-Living to "Animalacra" Pig Tales.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4729-5

0-8166-7698-4

OCLC:

756484551