Animal Writing : : Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy / / Danielle Sands.
Navigates various literary and philosophical approaches to the representation of the nonhuman5 chapters each explore a different element of the human–nonhuman relationship by placing philosophical theories in dialogue with literary textsEncounters fiction writers Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han K...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Crosscurrents : CROSS
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Introduction: Ten Statements about Empathy and Animal Studies
- 1. Fragile Bodies, Cross-species Empathy and Suspended Allegories: ‘It hurt, it was painful – that’s all there is to say’
- 2. Anthropomorphism and the ‘Ends of Man’ in the Anthropocene: ‘My chimp nature’
- 3. Telling Nonhuman Stories: ‘The secret contours of objects’
- 4. The Sexual Politics of Nature Writing and Lepidoptery: ‘The siren song of entomology’
- 5. Insect Ethics and Aesthetics: ‘Their blood does not stain our hands’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index