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Melancholia's Dog - Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Melancholia's Dog - Reflections on Our Animal Kinship (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris
in terms of reciprocity and empathy, Melancholia's Dog tackles such
difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame
associated with identification with their suffering, and the
reasons for the profound mourning over their deaths. In addition to
philosophy and psychoanalysis, Alice A. Kuzniar turns to the
insights and images offered by the literary and visual arts-the
short stories of Ivan Turgenev and Franz Kafka, the novels of J. M.
Coetzee and Rebecca Brown, the photography of Sally Mann and
William Wegman, and the artwork of David Hockney and Sue Coe.
Without falling into sentimentality or anthropomorphization,
Kuzniar honors and learns from our canine companions, above all
attending to the silences and sadness brought on by the effort to
represent the dog as perfectly and faithfully as it is said to
love.
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