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" Creatural Fictions : "
edited by David Herman.
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BL
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719137
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b538828
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edited by David Herman.
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Creatural Fictions : : Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature\ edited by David Herman.
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New York Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016
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Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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1
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1137518111
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: 9781137518118
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Introduction: Literature beyond the Human; David HermanPART I: LITERARY MODERNISMS, ANIMAL WORLDS, AND TRANS-SPECIES ENTANGLEMENTS1. Kafka's Animal Stories: Modernist Form and Inter-species Narrative; Marianne DeKoven2. The Tortured Animals of Modernity: Animal Studies and Italian Literature; Damiano Benvegnu3. The Black Sheep: Djuna Barnes's Dark Pastoral; Andrew KalaidjianPART II: LITERATURE BEYOND THE HUMAN I: SPECIES, SEXUALITY, AND GENDER4. "Becoming Men" and Animal Sacrifice: Contemporary Literary Examples; Josephine Donovan5. A Tail for Two Theorists: The Problem of the Female Monster in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love; Rajesh K. Reddy6. Friendship; or, Representing More-than-Human Subjectivities and Spaces in J. R. Ackerley's My Dog Tulip; Shun Yin Kiang PART III: LITERATURE BEYOND THE HUMAN II: HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS ACROSS GENRES7. "A Little Wildness": Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance; Christy Tidwell8. Animal Worlds and Anthropological Machines in Yann Martel's Millennial Novel Life of Pi; Hilary Thompson9. "Like Words Printed on Skin": Desire, Animal Masks, and Multispecies Relationships in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt; Nandini ThiyagarajanPART IV: HUMAN-ANIMAL ENTANGELEMENTS IN LATE TWENTIETH AND EARLY TWENTY-FIRST FICTION10. Horsescapes: Space, Nation, and Human-Horse Relations in Jane Smiley's Horse Heaven; Jopi Nyman11. Animal Others, Other People: Exploring Cetacean Personhood in Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller; Craig Smith12. Ghostly Presences: Tracing the Animal in Julia Leigh's The Hunter; Roman Bartosch
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Science.
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PN56.A64E358 2016
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David Herman
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