Thinking Italian Animals
Subtitle: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 18, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781137454751
Description: Situated on the cutting edge of scholarship in a variety of fields, this bracing volume draws together essays on Italian writers and filmmakers whose work engages with nonhuman animal subjectivity. Analyzing works from unification to the present, they address three major strands of current philosophical thought: the perceived borders between man and nonhuman animals, historical and fictional crises facing humanity, and human entanglement with the nonhuman and material world. These essays are driven by philosophical, theoretical, and ethical questions that interrogate Italian cultural production in provocative new ways, and their analysis has implications not simply for Italianists, but for a range of scholars doing work within cross-disciplinary fields such as animal studies, ecocriticism, and posthuman philosophy.
Notes: Source title: Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film (Italian and Italian American Studies)