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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Table of Contents:
- 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