| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 248 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Animalities -- Edinburgh University Press -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The End of the Animal -- Literary and Cultural Animalities -- 1 Each Time Unique: The Poetics of Extinction -- 2 Posthuman New York: Ground Zero of the Anthropocene -- 3 J. G. Ballard's Dark Ecologies: Unsettling Nature, Animals, and Literary Tropes -- 4 Staging Humanimality: Patricia Piccinini and a Genealogy of Species Intermingling -- 5 "Sparks Would Fly": Electricity and the Spectacle of Animality -- 6 The Nature of Birds, Women, and Cancer: Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge and When Women Were Birds -- 7 Animality, Biopolitics, and Umwelt in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- 8 Looking the Beast in the Eye: Re-animating Meat in Nordic and British Food Culture -- 9 Love Triangle with Dog: Whym Chow, the "Michael Fields," and the Poetic Potential of Human-Animal -- 10 Bestial Humans and Sexual Animals: Zoophilia in Law and Literature -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Animals in literature.
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Animals in literature. |
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature. |
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Animals in motion pictures.
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Animals in motion pictures. |
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Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
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Human-animal relationships in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lundblad, Michael, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Animalities. [Edinburgh] : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 9781474400022 (OCoLC)990168771 |
| ISBN |
9781474400039 (electronic book) |
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1474400035 (electronic book) |
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9781474400022 |
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1474400027 |
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9781474434584 |
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1474434584 |
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