Beastly Modernisms : : The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture / / ed. by Alex Goody.

A contemporary collection of scholarly essays exploring the vibrant intersections of modernist studies and critical animal studiesPresents the diverse range of intersections between modernist and critical animal studiesIncludes cutting-edge research contributions from a heterogenous and interdiscipl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations 6 colour illustrations 4 black & white and 6 colour illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: ‘BEASTLY MODERNISMS’
  • Part I: Companion Species
  • 1 META MODERNIST BEASTS, OR FLUSH’S FUTURE: CERIDWEN DOVEY’S ONLY THE ANIMALS AND SIGRID NUNEZ’S MITZ: THE MARMOSET OF BLOOMSBURY
  • 2 CAN FLUSH COUNT?: VIRGINIA WOOLF, ANIMALITY AND NUMBERS
  • 3 CANINE COMPANIONS, RACE AND AFFECTIVE ANTHROPOMORPHISM IN FLORENCE AYSCOUGH’S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHINESE DOG (1926) AND MARY GAUNT’S A BROKEN JOURNEY (1919)
  • Part II : Beastly Traces
  • 4 MAKING AN IMPRESSION DEEPLY : AUTHORISING ANIMALS IN D. H. LAWRENCE
  • 5 FOLLOWING THE BEAST FAMILIAR: DJUNA BARNES’S FAMILY DRAMAS
  • 6 THE TAXIDERMIC IMAGINARY IN MODERNIST LITERAT URE
  • Part III: Animal, Nation, Empire
  • 7 SPECIES CLEANSING: THE RHETORIC OF RAT CONTROL IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF POLAND 1945–1956
  • 8 THE BARKING DOG AND CRYING BIRD IN PARTITION STORIES: BEASTLY MODERNISM AND THE SUBALTERN ANIMISM OF MANTO, RAKESH AND ANAND
  • 9 RESISTANT REINDEERS: HUMAN–ANIMAL RELATIONS AND CULTURAL SELF-APPROPRIATION IN SÁMI ART AND LITERATURE
  • Part IV: Intersections, Encounters
  • 10. ANIMAL–HUMAN ENTANGLEMENTS IN THE CANADIAN WILD ANIMAL STORIES OF CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS
  • 11 ENCOUNTERING FEMALE HUMAN ANIMAL BECOMINGS IN LEONORA CARRINGTON ’S SURREALIST HYBRID TALES
  • 12 MODERN INTERSECTIONS: READING ANITA SCOTT COLEMAN’S ANIMALS
  • Part V: Extinction, War, Proliferation
  • 13 1940s AVIAN NOIR
  • 14 UNHOMING THE PIGEON: AHMED ALI’S TWILIGHT IN DELHI
  • 15. THE MODERNIST JELLY FISH
  • AFTERWORD: THE ANIMAL IN THE MIRROR
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • Index