Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-108-55239-4
Content:
The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2018)
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Uplifting animals
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Looking up, looking down: orientations of the human
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The grotesque mouth
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"The highest civilisation among ants": Stevenson and the fable
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"'An animal among the animals": Wells and the thought of the future
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Animal bachelors and animal brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett
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Scapegoats and scapegraces: becoming sacrificial animal in Kafka and Coetzee
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"Diogenes of the zoo"
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-108-42820-0
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-108-44907-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Fabel
;
Naturwissenschaften
DOI:
10.1017/9781108552394
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108552394
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