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Animal writing : storytelling, selfhood and the limits of empathy /
"Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : ten statements about empathy and animal studies
- Fragile bodies, cross-species empathy and suspended allegories : 'it hurt, it was painful
- that's all there is to say'
- Anthropomorphism and the 'Ends of Man' in the Anthropocene : 'My chimp nature'
- Telling nonhuman stories : 'The secret contours of objects'
- The sexual politics of nature writing and lepidoptery : 'The siren song of entomology'
- Insect ethics and aesthetics : 'Their blood does not stain our hands'