Title: Beasts of the modern imagination : Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst & Lawrence /
Authors: Norris, Margot.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 1985
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, Influence.; Literature, Modern History and criticism; Human beings Animal nature; Anthropomorphism; Animals in literature; Mimesis in literature; Art, Modern; Literature and science; Psychoanalysis and literature.; Comparative literature Themes, motives.
Contents: 1. Introduction: The biocentric tradition -- 2. Darwin's reading of nature -- 3. Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the problem of mimesis -- 5. Nietzsche's Ecce homo: Behold the beast -- 6. Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. The ontology of D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr -- 9. The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. Conclusion: The biocentric tradition in context.