Writing Animals Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Baker, Timothy C. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Animal welfare.; Contemporary Literature.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.

This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Literary Animals
• 2. The Ape Speaks: Rereading Red Peter in the Twenty-First Century
• 3. Ladies into Foxes: Narratives of Transformation
• 4. The Dying Animal
• 5. The Dying Animals: Anthropocene Stories
• 6. Look! A Squirrel!: Animals Writing.