Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 383 Seiten) :
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Illustrationen.
ISBN:
978-1-108-59527-8
Serie:
Cambridge critical concepts
Inhalt:
"Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally-noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores to the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands" ...
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-108-42982-5
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Drama
;
Tiere
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/9781108595278
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595278
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
Mehr zum Autor:
Massumi, Brian, 1956-
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