Animals and humans in German literature, 1800-2000
Subtitle: exploring the great divide
By: edited by Lorella Bosco and Micaela Latini
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781527558540
Subjects: Animals in literature; Humanity in literature; German literature; History and criticism
Description: The recent emergence of the discipline of literary animal studies regards literature in itself as constitutive element of a history of knowledge. The discipline has led not only to the expansion of the corpus of texts traditionally connected with animals, but also established new concepts and methods for revising conventional cultural dichotomies (subject and object, human and animal). The 10 essays collected in this volume are devoted to a wide range of case studies on the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 18th century. They display a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to a number of texts packed with references to animals, considered not primarily as objects of literature, but as agents endowed with an active role in the production of literature, and which have left repressed or forgotten traces in texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.