Animal narratives and culture : vulnerable realism / by Anna Barcz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barcz, Anna, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--21st century--History and criticism.

Realism in literature.

Animals in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

The term "vulnerable realism" can imply two different understandings: one presenting weak realism as incomplete, and mixed with other literary styles; the other bringing realistic vulnerable experience into narration. The second is the key concern of this work, though it does not exclude the first, as it asks questions about realism as such, entering into a polemic with the tradition of literary realism. Realism, then, is not primarily understood as a narrative style, but as a narration that tests the probability of nonhuman vulnerable experience and makes it real. The book consists of three parts. The first presents examples of how realism has been redefined in trauma studies and how it may refer to animal experience. The second explores what is added to the narrative by literature, including the animal perspective (the zoonarrative) and how it is conducted (zoocriticism). The third analyses cultural texts, such as painting, circuses, and memorials, which realistically generate animal vulnerability and provide non-anthropocentric frameworks, anchoring our knowledge in the experience of fragile historical reality. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Realism, Referentiality, and the Vulnerable

Chapter 1 Redefining Realism and New Interpretative Possibilities 11

Chapter 2 The Animal and the Mute as a Paradigm of the Victim 25

Part 2 Zoonarrations

Chapter 3 Posthumanism and Its Animal Voices in Literature 45

Chapter 4 On D. H. Lawrence's "Snake" that Slips out of the Text: Derrida's Reading of the Poem 71

Chapter 5 Introducing Zoocriticism (a Theory of Animal Narratives) 89

Part 3 The Presence of Animal Vulnerability

Chapter 6 Rembrandt's Slaughtered Ox: The Animal Referent Made Present 109

Chapter 7 Vulnerable Animals in Circuses: The Animal Side in Menagerie / Ferdynand Ossendowski Ossendowski, Ferdynand 123

Chapter 8 War Memorials to Animals from the Anthropocene Age 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781443827324

1443827320

OCLC:

964303388

Publisher Number:

99973413924