An Eclectic Bestiary : : Encounters in a More-than-Human World / / ed. by Babette B. Tischleder, Birgit Spengler.

• MitwirkendeR: Breinig, Helmbrecht,; Brinckmann, Christine N.,; Buschendorf, Christa,; Fetterley, Judith,; Franke, Astrid,; Haselstein, Ulla,; Herzogenrath, Bernd,; Holmgren Troy, Maria,; Katchadourian, Nina,; Kilcup, Karen L.,; Lillge, Claudia,; Mackenthun, Gesa,; Majewska, Magda,; Sarkowsky, Katja,; Scharf, Susanne,; Scholz, Susanne,; Sielke, Sabine,; Spengler, Birgit,; Tischleder, Babette B.,; Twelbeck, Kirsten,; Voelz, Johannes,; Wendt, Simon,; Wiser, Yvonne,
• HerausgeberIn: Spengler, Birgit,; Tischleder, Babette B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Human-Animal Studies ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Multispecies Chronotopes— Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human --; Vegetal Life and Plant Poetics --; Cleveland Select --; Blood on the Kitchen Table --; Flowers --; Arboreal Encounters in Richard Powers’s The Overstory --; Photo Series #1 --; The Lives of Trees --; Sonic Bugs and Lyrical Beasts --; Skunk --; “The Citizenry of All Things Within One World”: Mary Oliver’s Poetic Explorations of Kinship --; Strange Animals in Stylish Habitats: Marianne Moore’s Poetry Revisited --; The Beetles—Greatest Hits: The Rhythm ’n’ Sound of Insects --; Robert Lowell’s Hidden Cats: From Lord Weary’s Castle to Dolphin --; Zoological Encounters --; Photo Series #2 --; Urban Animals --; Political Ecologies in a Multispecies World --; Notes on Thoreau’s Posthuman Democracy --; Sacred Pact or Overkill? Human-Bison Relations in North American Mythologies --; Hands: Transdifferent Encounters between Human and Nonhuman Animals --; Immanence is Bliss: The Ecological Imagination in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow --; The Decline of Humanity in a Post-Animal World: The Animal Motif in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road --; Art Work --; Uninvited Collaborations with Nature --; With and Beyond Nonhumans: Encounters, Empathy, Entanglements --; “Strange Matings” and Cultural Encounters: Octavia Butler’s Fiction as “Companion Species” to Theory --; More Than Human? Dracula’s Monstrosity --; “Revealing the Wellsprings of Power”: An Essay on the Social Function of Humor in “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” --; Empathy with the Animal --; Martin Usborne’s Dogs: On Entangled Empathy in The Silence of Dogs in Cars and Where Hunting Dogs Rest --; Paws of Courage: The Heroization of Dogs in Contemporary American Culture --; Acknowledgements --; Biographical Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839445662
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839445662?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Babette B. Tischleder, Birgit Spengler.

The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.