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]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Human-Animal Studies ; 20
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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