Thinking Italian Animals [electronic resource] : Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film /
Amberson, D.editor.
Past, E.editor.
This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world.
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Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Mimesis: The Heterospecific as Ontopoietic Epiphany; Reinterpreting Mimesis; The Rubicon: Between Human and Nonhuman; Mimesis as Knowledge and Hybridization; Posthuman Poetics; Notes; Works Cited; Introduction: Thinking Italian Animals; Philosophical Animals; Animals Literary and Cinematic; Notes; Works Cited; Part 1: Ontologies and Thresholds; Chapter 1: Confronting the Specter of Animality: Tozzi and the Uncanny Animal of Modernism; Exploiting the Beast
The Unfathomable AnimalWriting Animal Being; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 2: Cesare Pavese, Posthumanism, and the Maternal Symbolic; Prehistory; Posthistory; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Montale's Animals: Rhetorical Props or Metaphysical Kin?; To Anthropomorphize or Not, That Is the Question; Will the Real Animal Please Step Forward?; Trivial Anthropomorphism or Righteous Indifference?; Angels and Curious Creatures; Animals "in Language": Incarnations and Guilt; Metempsychosis, Metacommunication, and Professorial Presumption
Montale Rereads Himself: Animals as Individuals or Collective SpeciesNotes; Works Cited; Chapter 4: The Word Made Animal Flesh: Tommaso Landolfi's Bestiary; Animals Proper and Fantastic Animals; Anthropomorphic and Theriomorphic Creatures; Animots; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Animal Metaphors, Biopolitics, and the Animal Question: Mario Luzi, Giorgio Agamben, and the Human-Animal Divide; From Animal Metaphor to Ecumenical Biocentrism; Biopolitics and Posthuman Idleness; Notes; Works Cited; Part 2: Biopolitics and Historical Crisis
Chapter 6: Creatureliness and Posthumanism in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter and Pier Paolo Pasolini's SalòPosthumanism and the Creaturely; Surfaces of Consumerism; Creaturely Embodiment in the New Human Epoch; Nonproductive Sexuality and Homeostasis; Conclusion: Spectating the Creature at the End of History; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7: Elsa Morante at the Biopolitical Turn: Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible; From Biopolitics to Bare Life; Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Child, Becoming-Animal; From the Creature to the Cosmos; Notes; Works Cited
Chapter 8: Foreshadowing the Posthuman: Hybridization, Apocalypse, and Renewal in Paolo VolponiPushing beyond Anthropocentrism; Animality and the Apocalyptic Imagination; Capitalism and Theriomorphosis; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 9: The Postapocalyptic Cookbook: Animality, Posthumanism, and Meat in Laura Pugno and Wu Ming; Future Histories, Present Fictions; Contagion, Degeneration, Evolution; When the Animal Looks Back; Exit: Of Men, Animals, and Monsters; Notes; Works Cited; Part 3: Ecologies and Hybridizations
Chapter 10: The Monstrous Meal: Flesh Consumption and Resistance in the European Gothic
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This bracing volume collects work on Italian writers and filmmakers that engage with nonhuman animal subjectivity. These contributions address 3 major strands of philosophical thought: perceived borders between man and animals, historical and fictional crises, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world.
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Ethnology—Europe.
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History of Italy.
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