Modern Animalism : : Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature / / Glenn Willmott.
From T. S. Eliot's Sweeney to C. S. Lewis's Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these 'modern primitive' figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Modern Habitats -- Chapter Two. Problem Creatures -- Chapter Three. Surviving History -- Chapter Four. Growing Wonder -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Summary: | From T. S. Eliot's Sweeney to C. S. Lewis's Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these 'modern primitive' figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters?Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal 'problem creature' in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present - including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, and Morrison. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442695580 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442695580 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Glenn Willmott. |