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Poetic Animals and Animal Souls

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  • © 2003

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  1. Randy Malamud
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. An Ecocritical Ethics of Reading

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. On Knowing (and Not Knowing) Animals

      • Randy Malamud
      Pages 3-48

  3. Poetic Animals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Mesoamerican Spirituality and Animal Co-Essences

      • Randy Malamud
      Pages 51-75

    3. José Emilio Pacheco: “I Saw a Dying Fish”

      • Randy Malamud
      Pages 77-92

    4. Marianne Moore: “Flies in Amber”

      • Randy Malamud
      Pages 93-136

    5. Smith, Larkin, Snyder, Heaney, Rogers: “We Should be Kind”

      • Randy Malamud
      Pages 137-187

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 189-200
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About this book

This book offers a new paradigm for reading and appreciating animals in literature and addresses how human culture views animals in poetry. Part one sets up a theoretical overview and posits some aesthetic and ethical ideals for transposing animals into art, while part two presents a more focused practical application of these ideals in one strain of animal poetry (as seen in the works of Marianne Moore, José Emilio Pacheco, Gary Snyder, Pattiann Rogers and others). The poetry analyzed in the book is respectfully and non-invasively insightful into animals; it is tinged with a distancing, and a kind of spiritual awe, regarding their existence.

About the author

RANDY MALAMUD is Professor of English at Georgia State University, and Associate Chair of the department. He has written several books about T. S. Elliot and modern British literature, and he is author most recently of Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity.

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