Overview
- Presents a convincing and overdue introduction to the “animal turn” in 21st century literature and literary criticism
- Demonstrates that behind what were earlier thought to be only anthropomorphic figural and fabular animal figures serving as stand-ins for the human is “a living, animate creature” that is demonstrably and accurately a nonhuman animal
- Offers exciting readings of contemporary novels
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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This book is about ordinary animals and how they are imagined in twenty-first century fiction. Examining contemporary animal representations and the fraught and potent distinctions humans fashion between themselves and all other animals, it asks how a range of novels make, re-make or un-make traditional conceptions of the creatures we love, admire, eat, vilify and abuse. Other Animals’ detailed readings of horses, an animalised human, a donkey, ants, chickens and chimpanzees develop new critical practices in Literary Animal Studies. They explore the connections between fictional animal representation, narrative form, ethics, and the lives and warm bodies of the real-world creatures that precede and exceed our imagination. Human-animal relationships are conditioned by our imaginative shapings of other animals, and by our sense of distinction from them, and Other Animals opens out how fictional animal forms and tropes respond to, participate in, or challenge the ways animals’ lives are lived out in consequence of human imaginings of them.
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Book Title: Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction
Authors: Catherine Parry
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55932-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55931-5Published: 28 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85782-4Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55932-2Published: 19 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 245
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics