Overview
- Unlike many recent studies of animals in fiction it does not argue that literary depictions can help readers understand or empathise with nonhuman animals more fully, instead demonstrating that such depictions of interspecies relations can radically destabilize assumptions about the nature of language and narrative
- Draws on a wide range of theory and criticism, including continental philosophy, anthropology, affect theory, feminist posthumanism, and more
- Offers new opportunities to see not only the centrality of nonhuman animals to contemporary fiction, but how writing animal lives changes the nature of the text itself
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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About the author
Timothy C. Baker is Senior Lecturer in Scottish and Contemporary Literature at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of George Mackay Brown and the Philosophy of Community (2009) and Contemporary Scottish Gothic: Mourning, Authenticity, and Tradition (2014).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing Animals
Book Subtitle: Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Authors: Timothy C. Baker
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03880-9
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) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-03879-3Published: 16 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-03880-9Published: 07 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 239
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics