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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Difference and Desire
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Front Matter
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Theories of the Other
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"This is a fascinating, important collection, guaranteed to change the way you think about cultural representations of animals. Figuring Animals cuts across disciplinary and genre boundaries to examine the causes, meanings, and consequences of how we conceive of 'other' species. I can't imagine a more diverse and interesting collection of essays on the depiction of animals in art, language, philosophy, and culture than those assembled here." - Christian Weisser, Florida Atlantic University
"Figuring Animals is, no matter the measure, a striking collection of essays. Pollock and Rainwater have burrowed beneath the thick skin of our assumptions and depictions, and what they reveal to the reader is not particularly pretty, although it is always illuminating. Animals, as they put it, are 'our most persistent other,' and this text reframes the question of otherness in provocative ways. Humans coopt animal independence, scoff at or revere the possibility of animal emotion, experiment, and adore. Examining our figuring of animals, from the brutal to the anthropomorphic, Pollock and Rainwater demand that we reconsider the relationship. If not for the animals' sake, they seem to say, then for our own." - Megan O'Neill, Associate Professor of English, Stetson University
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
CATHERINE RAINWATER is Professor of English at St. Edward's University in Texas, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Figuring Animals
Book Subtitle: Essays on Animal Images in Art, Literature, Philosophy and Popular Culture
Authors: Mary Sanders Pollock, Catherine Rainwater
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09411-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6512-7Published: 31 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-09411-7Published: 03 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 292
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Regional and Cultural Studies, Philosophy, general, Popular Life Sciences, Cultural Studies