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Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of
animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative,
agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary
encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading
provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which
they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra
Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted
Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates
the value of distinctively literary animal studies.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role
of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what
literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading
international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with
creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it
means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking
about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific
developments and controversies. The first part of the book offers
historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early
modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic
sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and
contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across
periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and
spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender,
religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion
places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at
the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.
From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse
phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan
explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Over
the course of an introduction and four thematically organised
chapters on 'Animals as Humans', 'Animal Ontology', 'Animal Life'
and 'Animal Ethics', he critically engages with a diverse range of
ancient, modern and contemporary thinkers including Aristotle,
Plutarch, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Locke, Nietzsche,
Freud, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Nagel, Levinas, Deleuze,
Derrida, Singer, Regan, Diamond, Adams, Haraway, Nussbaum, Badiou
and Braidotti. To supplement the theoretical material, each chapter
contains lively close readings of contemporary literary texts by
Carter, Coetzee, Auster and Foer. Intended as a resource for
researchers, students, teachers and all those interested in
human-animal relationships, Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction
provides an accessible and authoritative account of the challenges
and potential in thinking about and with animals.
Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of
animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative,
agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary
encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading
provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which
they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra
Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted
Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates
the value of distinctively literary animal studies.
Described by Katherine Mansfield in 1921 as 'a great cold sword
between you and your dear love Adventure', in the early twentieth
century the English Channel, or 'La Manche' in French, represented
both a political and an intellectual barrier between European
avant-gardism and British restraint, and a bridge for cultural
connection and aesthetic innovation. Organised around key terms
'Translating', 'Fashioning' and 'Mediating', this book presents ten
original essays by scholars working on both sides of the Channel.
This book explores Woolf's writing alongside Deleuzian philosophy
and new materialist theories of sexuality, animality, and posthuman
life. How does Virginia Woolf conceptualise the material world? In
what ways has Woolf's modernism affected understandings of
materiality, and what new perspectives does she offer contemporary
theoretical debates? Derek Ryan demonstrates how materiality is
theorised in Woolf's writings by focusing on the connections she
makes between culture and nature, embodiment and environment, human
and nonhuman, life and matter. Through close readings of texts
including To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, The
Waves, Flush, and 'Sketch of the Past', he details the fresh
insights Woolf provides into issues concerning the natural world,
sexual difference, sexuality, animality, and life itself. Ryan
opens up Woolf studies to new theoretical paradigms by placing
Woolf in dialogue with Gilles Deleuze - who cites her modernist
aesthetics as exemplary of some of his most important philosophical
concepts - as well as eminent contemporary theorists including Rosi
Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Jane Bennett, all of
whom have influenced the recent critical turn towards new
materialisms. Locating theory within Woolf's writing as well as
locating Woolf within theory, Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of
Theory: Sex, Animal, Life brings her modernism firmly into to the
foreground of current debates in literary studies, feminist
philosophy, queer theory, animal studies and posthumanities.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role
of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what
literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading
international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with
creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it
means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking
about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific
developments and controversies. The first part of the book offers
historically rooted arguments about medieval metamorphosis, early
modern fleshiness, eighteenth-century imperialism, Romantic
sympathy, Victorian racial politics, modernist otherness and
contemporary forms. The second part poses questions that cut across
periods, concerning habitat and extinction, captivity and
spectatorship, race and (post-)coloniality, sexuality and gender,
religion and law, health and wealth. In doing so, this companion
places animals at the centre of literary studies and literature at
the heart of urgent debates in the growing field of animal studies.
The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive
available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury
Group - the set of influential writers, artists and thinkers whose
members included Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster, John
Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and David
Garnett. With chapters written by world leading scholars in the
field, the book explores novel avenues of thinking about these
pivotal figures and how their works are opened up by the new
modernist studies. It brings together overview essays with detailed
illustrative case studies, and covers topics as diverse as
feminism, sexuality, empire, philosophy, class, nature and the
arts. Setting the agenda for future study of Bloomsbury, this is an
essential resource for scholars of 20th-century modernist culture.
The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive
available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury
Group - the set of influential writers, artists and thinkers whose
members included Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster, John
Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and David
Garnett. With chapters written by world leading scholars in the
field, the book explores novel avenues of thinking about these
pivotal figures and their works opened up by the new modernist
studies. It brings together overview essays with detailed
illustrative case studies, and covers topics as diverse as
feminism, sexuality, empire, philosophy, class, nature and the
arts. Setting the agenda for future study of Bloomsbury, this is an
essential resource for scholars of 20th-century modernist culture.
Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature reveals how the
Bloomsbury group's fascination with beasts - from pests to pets,
tiny insects to big game - became an integral part of their
critique of modernity and conceptualisation of more-than-human
worlds. Through a series of close readings, it argues that for
Leonard Woolf, David Garnett, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster,
profound shifts in interspecies relations were intimately connected
to questions of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and
technology. Whether in their hunting narratives, zoo fictions,
canine biographies or (un)entomological aesthetics, these writers
repeatedly test the boundaries between, and imagine transformations
of, human and nonhuman by insisting that we attend to the material
contexts in which they meet. In demonstrating this, the book
enrichens our understanding of British modernism while intervening
in debates on the cultural significance of animality from the turn
of the twentieth century to the Second World War.
Explores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange between
Britain, France and beyond
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