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Insect Poetics (Paperback, Uncut Version/A)
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Insects are everywhere. There are millions of species sharing the
world with humans and other animals. Though literally woven into
the fabric of human affairs, insects are considered alien from the
human world. Animal studies and rights have become a fecund field,
but for the most part scant attention has been paid to the
relationship between insects and humans. "Insect Poetics" redresses
that imbalance by welcoming insects into the world of letters and
cultural debate.
In "Insect Poetics," the first book to comprehensively explore the
cultural and textual meanings of bugs, editor Eric Brown argues
that insects are humanity's "other." In order to be experienced,
the insect world must be mediated by art or technology (as in the
case of an ant farm or Kafka's "Metamorphoses") while humans
observe, detached and fascinated.
In eighteen original essays, this book illuminates the ways in
which our human intellectual and cultural models have been
influenced by the natural history of insects. Through critical
readings contributors address such topics as performing insects in
Shakespeare's "Coriolanus," the cockroach in the contemporary
American novel, the butterfly's "voyage out" in Virginia Woolf, and
images of insect eating in literature and popular culture. In
surprising ways, contributors tease out the particularities of
insects as cultural signifiers and propose ways of thinking about
"insectivity," suggesting fertile cross-pollinations between
entomology and the arts, between insects and the humanities.
Contributors: May Berenbaum, Yves Cambefort, Marion W. Copeland,
Nicky Coutts, Bertrand Gervais, Sarah Gordon, Cristopher
Hollingsworth, Heather Johnson, Richard J.Leskosky, Tony McGowan,
Erika Mae Olbricht, Marc Olivier, Roy Rosenstein, Rachel Sarsfield,
Charlotte Sleigh, Andre Stipanovic.
Eric C. Brown is assistant professor of English at the University
of Maine at Farmington. He has written previously about insects and
eschatology in Edmund Spenser's "Muiopotmos,"
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