Literature and Meat Since 1900

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: McCorry, Seán (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Miller, John (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• 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.; Ethics.; Agriculture.; Animal welfare.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Agricultural Ethics.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.

This collection of essays centers on literary representations of meat-eating, bringing aesthetic questions into dialogue with more established research on the ethics and politics of meat. From the decline of traditional animal husbandry to the emergence of intensive agriculture and the biotechnologi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Meat Critique, Seán McCorry and John Miller
• 2. Inside the "Butcher's Shop": Women's Great War Writing and Surgical Meat, Vicki Tromanhauser
• 3. Kafka's Meat: Beautiful Processes and Perfect Victims, Ted Geier
• 4. Carnophallogocentrism and the Act of Eating Meat in Two Novels by Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Taylor, Adrian Tait
• 5. "Necessary Murder": Eating Meat against Fascism in Orwell and Auden, Stewart Cole
• 6. The Literary Invention of in Vitro Meat: Ontology, Nostalgia and Debt in Pohl and Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, John Miller
• 7. "They'll Be Breeding Us Like Cattle!": Population Ecology and Human Exceptionalism in Soylent Green, Seán McCorry
• 8. Herring Fisheries, Fish-Eating and Natural History in W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, Dominic O'Key
• 9. "A Grain of Brain": Women and Farm Animals in Collections by Ariana Reines and Selima Hill, Rachael Allen
• 10. Narrative Possibilities in Ruth Ozeki's My Year of Meats, Sarika Chandra
• 11. Crossing the Barriers of Taste: The Alimentary Materialism of Jim Crace's The Devil's Larder, Sarah Bezan
• 12. Belonging to this World: On Living Like an Animal in Michel Faber's Under the Skin, Matthew Calarco
• 13. Dance With Nothing But Heart (2001): Death, the "Animal" and the Queer "Taste" of the Other, Ruth Lipschitz
• 14. Meanings of Meat in Videogames, Tom Tyler.