Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Work

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Benvegnù, Damiano (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, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
• Θέματα: Ethics.; Humanism.; Animal welfare.; Epistemology.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Relatively unexamined by scholar...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction. Primo Levi and the Question of the Animal
• 2. Suffering I. Shared Vulnerability
• 3. Suffering II. Muteness and Testimony
• 4. Techne I. Animal Hands
• 5. Techne II. Hybrids and Hubris
• 6. Creation I. A New Writing
• 7. Creation II. Re-Enchantment
• 8. Conclusion. Animal Testimony
• Index.