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An eclectic bestiary : encounters in a more-than-human world /
"The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Human-animal studies (Series : Bielefeld, Germany) ;
20. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Multispecies Chronotopes: Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human
- Vegetal Life and Plant Poetics. Cleveland Select; Blood on the Kitchen Table; Flowers; Arboreal Encounters in Richard Powers's The Overstory
- Photo Series #1. The Lives of Trees
- Sonic Bugs and Lyrical Beasts. Skunk; "The Citizenry of All Things Within One World": Mary Oliver's Poetic Explorations of Kinship; Strange Animals in Stylish Habitats: Marianne Moore's Poetry Revisited; The Beetles--Greatest Hits: The Rhythm 'n' Sound of Insects
- Robert Lowell's Hidden Cats: From Lord Weary's Castle to Dolphin; Zoological Encounters
- Photo Series #2. Urban Animals
- Political Ecologies in a Multispecies World. Notes on Thoreau's Posthuman Democracy; Sacred Pact or Overkill? Human-Bison Relations in North American Mythologies; Hands: Transdifferent Encounters between Human and Nonhuman Animals; Immanence is Bliss: The Ecological Imagination in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow; The Decline of Humanity in a Post-Animal World: The Animal Motif in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
- Art Work. Uninvited Collaborations with Nature
- With and Beyond Nonhumans: Encounters, Empathy, Entanglements. "Strange Matings" and Cultural Encounters: Octavia Butler's Fiction as "Companion Species" to Theory; More Than Human? Dracula's Monstrosity; "Revealing the Wellsprings of Power": An Essay on the Social Function of Humor in "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story"; Empathy with the Animal; Martin Usborne's Dogs: On Entangled Empathy in The Silence of Dogs in Cars and Where Hunting Dogs Rest; Paws of Courage: The Heroization of Dogs in Contemporary American Culture.