An empathetic literary analysis of Jack London's The call of the wild
Subtitle: understanding life from an animal's point of view
By: Barbara Hardy Beierl ; with a foreword by Marc Bekoff
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773429345
Subjects: Dogs in literature; Reader-response criticism; Self-realization in literature; Empathy in literature; Books and reading; Human-animal relationships in literature; Psychological aspects; In literature; Emotions in animals
Other titles: Understanding life from an animal's point of view
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Philosophical foundations and psychological underpinnings of empathy; title: Reading as an empathic activity; title: Enabling attitudinal change through empathic literary analysis; title: The empathic reader : analyzing Jack London's The call of the wild : developmental stage 1: Buck's odyssey from innocence to experience; developmental stage 2: Buck's apprenticeship;   developmental stage 3: The call of the wild; title: Humane narrative fiction, biophilia, and the interspecies bond.