Representing the Modern Animal in Culture [electronic resource] /
Rashidian, Ziba.author.
Dubino, J.editor.
Smyth, A.editor.
Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in Culture employs key theoretical apparatuses of Animal Studies to literary texts. Contributors address the multifarious modes of animal representation and the range of human-animal interactions that have emerged in the past 300 years.
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Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Ubiquity of Animals in Modern Representation and Epistemology; On Animals and Representation; Representing the Modern Animal in Culture and Representation; Structure of Representing the Modern Animal; Identity: Lives with Domestic Animals in the Modern Era; Anthropomorphism: Animals as Metaphor in the Age of Darwin; The Posthuman: Reconceiving Nonhuman Animals in the Contemporary World; Notes; Works Cited; Part I Identity: Lives with Domestic Animals in the Modern Era
1 The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and WestCommon Brutality; Stubbs's Portrait of Whistlejacket; Servants Equine and Human; Notes; Works Cited; 2 Paying Tribute to the Dogs: Turkish Strays in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing; Notes; Works Cited; 3 Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne's Menagerie; "Courage and Will Are Unconquerable": Gonne and the Politics of Representation; The Mysterious Forces of the Land; "Animals and I Always Understood Each Other"; The Most Wonderful Friend; Notes; Works Cited; 4 Pets in Memoir1
1. "I am I because my little dog knows me."2. Pets as Mirrors; 3. Pets as Truth; 4. Pets as Names; 5. Pets as Memory; 6. Pets as Memoir; Notes; Works Cited; Part II Anthropomorphism: Animals as Metaphor in the Age of Darwin; 5 Darwin's Ants: Evolutionary Theory and the Anthropomorphic Fallacy; Notes; Works Cited; 6 Cats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals; Notes; Works Cited; 7 The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore's Elephants; Notes; Works Cited; 8 Untimely Metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and Animal Flânerie
TransitionsEmancipations; Notes; Works Cited; Part III The Posthuman: Reconceiving Nonhuman Animals in the Contemporary World; 9 Splicing Genes with Postmodern Teens: The Hunger Games and the Hybrid Imagination; Predator, Prey, or Factory-Farmed Chicken?; Humans and Animals: "How different can it be, really?"; Works Cited; 10 On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bare Life and Bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood; The Art of Life; The Animal and the Techne of Life; Notes; Works Cited; 11 Animal Gods in Extinction Stories: Power and Princess Mononoke; Notes; Works Cited
12 Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies WorldAnimalizations: Conflating Race and Species; Dark Skin, Animal Masks: Animality and Minority Discourse; Toward Multispecies Ecologies of Representation; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in Culture employs key theoretical apparatuses of Animal Studies to literary texts. Contributors address the multifarious modes of animal representation and the range of human-animal interactions that have emerged in the past 300 years.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Literature—History and criticism.
Great Britain—History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Sociology, general.
Literary History.
History of Britain and Ireland.