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Literature and Animal Studies
Taschenbuch von Mario Ortiz-Robles
Sprache: Englisch

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Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals.

Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.
Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals.

Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.
Über den Autor

Mario Ortiz Robles is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and the author of The Novel as Event (2010) and co-editor of Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (2011).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. What is it Like to Be a Trope?

2. Equids (Might and Right)

3. Canids (Companionship, Cunning, Domestication)

4. Songbirds (Poetry and Environment)

5. Felids (Enigma and Fur)

6. Animal Revolutions (Allegory and Politics)

Glossary

Suggested Reading

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780415716017
ISBN-10: 0415716012
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ortiz-Robles, Mario
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Mario Ortiz-Robles
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.06.2016
Gewicht: 0,269 kg
Artikel-ID: 128452739
Über den Autor

Mario Ortiz Robles is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA and the author of The Novel as Event (2010) and co-editor of Narrative Middles: Navigating the Nineteenth-Century British Novel (2011).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. What is it Like to Be a Trope?

2. Equids (Might and Right)

3. Canids (Companionship, Cunning, Domestication)

4. Songbirds (Poetry and Environment)

5. Felids (Enigma and Fur)

6. Animal Revolutions (Allegory and Politics)

Glossary

Suggested Reading

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780415716017
ISBN-10: 0415716012
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ortiz-Robles, Mario
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 11 mm
Von/Mit: Mario Ortiz-Robles
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.06.2016
Gewicht: 0,269 kg
Artikel-ID: 128452739
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