Title: The animal part
Subtitle: human and other animals in the poetic imagination
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.
Subjects: Philosophical anthropology in literature, Animals in literature