How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other
animals? Mark Payne seeks to answer this question by exploring the
relationship between humans and other animals in writings from
antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to
modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne
considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience
of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal
societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be
possible if humans could see themselves as animals see them. The
Animal Part also argues that close reading must remain a central
practice of literary study if posthumanism is to articulate its own
prehistory. Offering detailed accounts of the tenuousness of the
idea of the human in ancient literature and philosophy, Payne
demonstrates that only through fine-grained literary interpretation
can we recover the poetic thinking about animals that has always
existed alongside philosophical constructions of the human. In sum,
The Animal Part marks a breakthrough in animal studies and offers a
significant contribution to comparative poetics.
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