An Eclectic Bestiary : : Encounters in a More-than-Human World / / 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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Human-Animal Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
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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 |
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Summary: | 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. |
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. |