The animal part
Subtitle: human and other animals in the poetic imagination
By: Mark Payne.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780226650845
Subjects: Animals in literature; Philosophical anthropology in literature
Description: This study explores the imaginative identification with animals enabled by aggression and the narcissistic aversion from them manifested as destructiveness. It explores the attraction to the society of other animals that finds expression in stories about human beings who try to join them, and the affects that cluster around the possibility that the human body is susceptible in various ways to becoming animal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Imagining animals; title: The abject animal; title: The beast in pain: abjection and aggression in Archilochus and William Carlos Williams; title: Destruction and creation: the work of men and animals in Gustave Flaubert, Gerald Manley Hopkins, and Ezra Pound; title: Becoming something else; title: Beyond the pale: joining the society of animals in Aristophanes, Herman Melville and Louis-Ferdinand Céline; title: Changing bodies: being and becoming an animal in Semonides, Ovid, and H. P. Lovecraft; title: Epilogue: I do not know what it is I am like.