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Animal writing : storytelling, selfhood and the limits of empathy / Danielle Sands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sands, Danielle, author.
- Series:
- Crosscurrents.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Crosscurrents
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human-animal relationships in literature.
- Animals in literature.
- Fiction--History and criticism.
- Fiction.
- Empathy in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 208 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads the fiction of Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois to propose a method of thinking of and with animals.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Introduction: Ten Statements about Empathy and Animal Studies
- 1. Fragile Bodies, Cross-species Empathy and Suspended Allegories: ‘It hurt, it was painful – that’s all there is to say’
- 2. Anthropomorphism and the ‘Ends of Man’ in the Anthropocene: ‘My chimp nature’
- 3. Telling Nonhuman Stories: ‘The secret contours of objects’
- 4. The Sexual Politics of Nature Writing and Lepidoptery: ‘The siren song of entomology’
- 5. Insect Ethics and Aesthetics: ‘Their blood does not stain our hands’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-7688-0
- 1-4744-3905-5
- OCLC:
- 1306541306
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