Reading Cats Reading cats and dogs : companion animals in world literature / edited by Francoise Besson [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Besson, Françoise, editor.

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice.

Ecocritical theory and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Cats in literature.

Dogs in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 287 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021]

Summary:

Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosophy, literature, and film devoted to human relationships with companion species. In addition to illuminating famous animal stories by Beatrix Potter, Jack London, Italo Svevo, and Michael Ondaatje, readers are introduced to the dog poems of Shuntaro Tanikawa, a Turkish documentary on stray cats as neighborhood companions, and the representation of diverse animal companions in Cameroonian novels. Focusing on "Stray and Feral Companions," "The Usefulness of Companion Animals," and "Problematizing Companion Animals," Reading Cats and Dogs aims both to confirm and topple readers' assumptions about the fellow travelers with whom we share our lives, our streets and fields, and our planet. Fifteen contributors from various countries reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and psychological complexities of our multispecies relationships, demonstrating the richness of ecocritical animal studies.

Contents:

Our feral future : dog stories and the anthropocene / Karla Armbruster

When you love the stray animals as much as your own pets : the case of companion animals in Turkey / Önder Çetin

Identity, love, and abuse in Laila al'Othman's cat stories / Marianne Marroum

Of mice, rabbits, and other companion species in Beatrix Potter's more than human world / Lorraine Kerslake

Walking through the animal kingdom : a search for the near and the dear / Niroshini Gunasekera

From the forbidden city to the locked-down megalopolis : reading the behaviors of cat lovers in China / Qianqian Cheng

Memorable dogs of Italian literature / Anna Re

Cross-species cooperation : hunting with dogs in contemporary American nature writing / Claire Cazajous-Augé

Let the sleeping dogs tell lies : companionship and solitude in Shuntarō Tanikawa's dog poems / Keita Hatooka

Of dogs, horses, and buffalos in Cameroon : companion animals in Cameroonian fiction / Kenneth Toah Nsah

The plight of dogs in the country-city gap : reading Chinese dog narratives across genres / Chen Hong

Cat killers, black diamonds, and a talking cat : feline companions in post-transitional South African fiction / Wendy Woodward

The paradoxical world of animal representation in the Brazilian novel As Horas Nuas in light Greek philosophy / Zélia M. Bora

Canine intiation into ecowisdom / Athane Adrahane

A quardriptych / by Francoise Besson, Zélia M. Bora, Marianne Marroum, and Scott Slovic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9787-9392-8

1-7936-1107-6