An Empathetic Literary Analysis of Jack London's The Call of the Wild : Understanding Life from an Animal's Point of View.
Numerous tomes have been written about Jack London's The Call of the Wild. This is the first one to talk about the dog Buck's perspective in the novel. Beierl takes an empathetic approach to discussing the domestication of Buck in the story to use this novel as a platform for building empa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Numerous tomes have been written about Jack London's The Call of the Wild. This is the first one to talk about the dog Buck's perspective in the novel. Beierl takes an empathetic approach to discussing the domestication of Buck in the story to use this novel as a platform for building empathetic relationships with animals. Very few scholarly works discuss literature from the perspective of an animal, and this one attempts to bring a fresh perspective at an old novel by theorizing empathetically with the characters, which plays a critical role in narrative-based responses to the novel. If chara. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780773412149 077341214X |