Animals, animality, and literature / edited by Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University, Molly Hand, Florida State University, Brian Massumi, University of Montreal.
| Call Number | 820.9/362 |
| Title | Animals, animality, and literature / edited by Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University, Molly Hand, Florida State University, Brian Massumi, University of Montreal. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xvii, 383 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Series | Cambridge critical concepts |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018). |
| Summary | Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands. |
| Added Author | Boehrer, Bruce Thomas, editor. Hand, Molly, editor. Massumi, Brian, editor. |
| Subject | English literature History and criticism. ANIMALS IN LITERATURE. Animals in motion pictures. Human-animal relationships in literature. Human-animal relationships in motion pictures. Animals (Philosophy) Human-animal relationships Philosophy. |
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| Summary | Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018). |
| Subject | English literature History and criticism. ANIMALS IN LITERATURE. Animals in motion pictures. Human-animal relationships in literature. Human-animal relationships in motion pictures. Animals (Philosophy) Human-animal relationships Philosophy. |
| Multimedia |