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Animal stories : narrating across species lines /
Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory, "Animal Stories" argues that key creative developments in narrative form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and science in the past century. The book t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Posthumanities ;
15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory, "Animal Stories" argues that key creative developments in narrative form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and science in the past century. The book traces representational patterns specific to modern and contemporary fictions of cross-species companionship through a variety of media—including novels, films, fine art, television shows, and digital games—to show how nothing less than the futures of all species life is at stake in narrative forms. The book’s investigations into fictions of people relying on animals in civic and professional life—most obviously those of service animal users and female professional horse riders—showcase distinctly modern and human–animal forms of intersubjectivity. But increasingly graphic violence directed at these figures indicates their ambivalent significance to changing configurations of species. -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452947297 1452947295 9780816676989 0816676984 |