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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beierl, Barbara Hardy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
Temas:
London, Jack, > 1876-1916. > Call of the wild.
Call of the wild (London, Jack)
Dogs in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Empathy in literature.
Emotions in animals.
Self-realization in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Books and reading > Psychological aspects.
Nurturing behavior in literature.
Chiens dans la littérature.
Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
Empathie dans la littérature.
Émotions chez les animaux.
Réalisation de soi dans la littérature.
Esthétique de la réception.
Livres et lecture > Aspect psychologique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Alaska > In literature.
Alaska > Dans la littérature.
Alaska.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abstract; Introduction; Chapter 1: Philosophical Foundations and Psychological Underpinnings of Empathy; Chapter 2: Reading As an Empatheic Activity; Chapter 3: Enabling Attitudinal Change through Empathetic Literary Analysis; Chapter 4: The Empathic Reader: Analyzing Jack London's The Call of the Wild; Developmental Stage 1: Buck's Odyssey from Innocence to Experience; Developmental Stage 2: Buck's Apprenticeship; Developmental Stage 3: The Call of the Wild.
  • Chapter 5: Humane Narrative Fiction, Biophilia, and the Interspecies BondBibliography; Index.

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