| 书目名称 | Writing Animals | | 副标题 | Language, Suffering, | | 编辑 | Timothy C. Baker | | 视频video | | | 概述 | 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 d | | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, .Writing Animals. offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.. | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | Human-animal relations; Anthropocentric; Contemporary fiction; Nonhuman; Interspecies relations; Continen | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03880-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-03880-9Series ISSN 2634-6338 Series E-ISSN 2634-6346 | | issn_series | 2634-6338 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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