Buch
Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals
Krishanu Maiti (Hrsg.)
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Übersicht
Verlag | : | Springer International Publishing |
Buchreihe | : | Issues in Literature and Culture, Second Language Learning and Teaching |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Erschienen | : | 12. 09. 2021 |
Seiten | : | 190 |
Einband | : | Gebunden |
Höhe | : | 235 mm |
Breite | : | 155 mm |
ISBN | : | 9783030761585 |
Sprache | : | Englisch |
Autorinformation
Krishanu Maiti, Ph.D.,teaches English literature and language at Panskura Banamali College (Autonomous), W.B., India. He wrote his doctoral thesis on representation of animals in D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes. His areas of interest include Animal Studies, Posthumanism and Environmental Humanities. He co-edited a volume titled Global Perspectives on Eco-Aesthetics and Eco-Ethics: A Green Critique (2019), published by Rowman & Littlefield, USA. His co-authoredessay on ‘Buddhism and Veganism’ appears in The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Zoohistoricism: Literary animals as codes in history and culture.- 2. Can natural theology rethink its relationship with non-human animals?.- 3. Jacques Derrida and the Autobiographical (Non-Human) Animal: An Analysis of (False) Animal Autobiographies.- 4. Reassessing Predatory Animals in Literary Journalism: A Look at John Vaillant’s The Tiger and Nate Blakeslee’s The Wolf.- 5.The Bird and Eye: Kinship with Birds as Proto-Ecofeminist Discourse of Liberation in George Meredith’s The Egoist.- 6. Deconstructing the Human-Animal Hierarchy at the End of the World: Readings in Literary Representation of Apocalypse.- 7. The Snake Has A Face: Levinas, Mondo, and the Suffering Non-Human Animal.- 8. Bowers of Persuasion: Toward a Posthuman Visual Rhetoric.