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Author Pick, Anat, 1955-

Title Creaturely poetics : animality and vulnerability in literature and film / Anat Pick.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication and Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Creaturely Bodies; 1. The Inhumanity of Literature; 1. Humanity Unraveled, Humanity Regained: The Holocaust and the Discourse of Species; 2. Neanderthal Poetics in William Golding's The Inheritors; 3. The Indignities of Species in Marie Darrieussecq's Pig Tales; 2. The Inhumanity of Film; 4. Cine-Zoos; 5. Scientific Surrealism in the Films of Georges Franju and Frederick Wiseman; 6. Werner Herzog's Creaturely Poetics; Conclusion: Animal Saintliness; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
Summary Simone Weil once wrote that ""the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence."" With these words, she established a relationship among vulnerability, beauty, and existence that transcends the boundaries separating the species. Her conception of a radical ethics and aesthetics could be characterized as a new ""poetics of species, "" that forces us to rethink the significance of the body, both human and animal. Exploring the ""logic of flesh, "" or how art and culture use the body to mark species identity, Anat Pick reimagines a poetics tha.
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Subject Animals in literature.
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animals in motion pictures.
Animals in motion pictures.
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophical anthropology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pick, Anat. Creaturely poetics. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011 9780231147866 0231147864 (DLC) 2010038193
ISBN 0231519850 (electronic book)
9780231519854 (electronic book)
9780231147866 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0231147864 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780231147873 (paperback)
0231147872 (paperback)