|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies
|
Buy Now
Literature and Animal Studies (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R4,462
Discovery Miles 44 620
|
|
|
Literature and Animal Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Literature and Contemporary Thought
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario
Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive
literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a
human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals.
Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals,
including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines
the various tropes literature has historically employed to give
meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond
allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make
a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline
within the humanities, by showing us that there is something
fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal
Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed
readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing
literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way
of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa.
The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh
eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature
in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(2)
(4)
