书目名称 | Posthumanist Perspectives on Literary and Cultural Animals |
编辑 | Krishanu Maiti |
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概述 | This volume argues that Critical Animal Studies is an emerging and growing field of research within the larger humanities discourse on Posthumanism.The book’s introduction provides a brief overview of |
丛书名称 | Second Language Learning and Teaching |
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描述 | This book offers Posthumanist readings of animal-centric literary and cultural texts. The contributors put the precepts and premises of humanism into question by seriously considering the animal presence in texts. The essays collected here focus primarily on literary and cultural texts from varied theoretically informed interdisciplinary perspectives advanced by critical approaches such as Critical Animal Studies and Posthumanism. Contributors select texts that cut across geographical and period boundaries and demonstrate how practices of close reading give rise to new ways of thinking about animals. By implicating the “animal turn” in the field of literary and cultural studies, this book urges us to problematize the separation of the human from other animals and rethink the hierarchical order of beings through close readings of select texts. It offers fresh perspectives on Posthumanist theory, inviting readers to revisit those criteria that created species’ difference from the early ages of human civilization. This book constitutes a rich and thorough scholarly resource on the politics of representation of animals in literature and culture. The essays in this book are empirically |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | Critical Animal Studies; Posthumanism; Human-Animal relationship; Cultural Studies; Animal rights and et |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76159-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-76161-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-76159-2Series ISSN 2193-7648 Series E-ISSN 2193-7656 |
issn_series | 2193-7648 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |