Overview

Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in Culture employs key theoretical apparatuses of Animal Studies to literary texts. Contributors address the multifarious modes of animal representation and the range of human-animal interactions that have emerged in the past 300 years.

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Author:   J. Dubino ,  Ziba Rashidian ,  A. Smyth
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.385kg
ISBN:  

9781137428646

ISBN 10:   1137428643
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   02 October 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Jeanne Dubino PART I: IDENTITY: LIVES WITH DOMESTIC ANIMALS IN THE MODERN ERA 1. The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and West; Donna Landry 2. Paying Tribute to the Dogs: Turkish Strays in Nineteenth-Century British Travel Texts; Jeanne Dubino 3. Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne's Menagerie; Kathryn Kirkpatrick 4. Pets in Memoir; Kevin Ferguson PART II: ANTHROPOMORPHISM: ANIMALS AS METAPHOR IN THE AGE OF DARWIN 5. Darwin's Ants: Evolutionary Theory and Anthropomorphic Fallacy; Alexis Harley 6. Cats, Rats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals; Emily Essert 7. The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore's Elephants; Joshua Schuster 8. Untimely Metamorphoses: Darwin, Baudelaire, Woolf, and Animal Flânerie ; Caroline Pollentier PART III: THE POSTHUMAN: RECONCEIVING NONHUMAN ANIMALS IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 9. Splicing Genes with Postmodern Teens: The Hunger Games and the Hybrid Imagination; Andrew Smyth 10. On the Wings of a Butterfly: Bare Life and Bioart in Eduardo Kac, Marta de Menezes, and Margaret Atwood; Ziba Rashidian 11. Being Out of Time: Animal Gods in Contemporary Extinction Fictions; Susan McHugh 12. Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World; Neel Ahuja

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From purebred horses and stray dogs to genetic bunnies and monkey vampires, this lively collection of essays reflects the expanding range of topics opened by the field of animal studies. Focusing on the ways we humans have represented our interactions with other animals in the modern era, and the ways such representations can matter for human and non-human lives, the collection brings to light how the experience of modernity is tied up with our real and imagined relations to other species. - Kari Weil, University Professor of Letters, Wesleyan University, USA

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Neel Ahuja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Emily Essert, Freelance Researcher and Editor, Canada Kevin L. Ferguson, Queens College, City University of New York, USA Alexis Harley, La Trobe University, Australia Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Appalachian State University, USA Donna Landry, University of Kent, UK Susan McHugh, University of New England, USA Caroline Pollentier, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France Joshua Schuster, University of Western Ontario, Canada

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