Beyond the Human-Animal Divide (eBook)

Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture

Roman Bartosch, Dominik Ohrem (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XV, 325 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-349-93437-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video media such as the film 'Creature Comforts' and the video game Into the Dead, and photography. With chapters written by an international group of philosophers, literary and cultural studies scholars, historians and others, the volume brings together established experts and forward-thinking early career scholars to provide an interdisciplinary engagement with ways of thinking and writing the creaturely to establish a postanthropocentric sense of human-animal relationality.  

Dominik Ohrem is Lecturer in the  Anglo-American Department of the School of History at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Roman Bartosch is  Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cologne, Germany.

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This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video media such as the film "e;Creature Comforts"e; and the video game Into the Dead, and photography. With chapters written by an international group of philosophers, literary and cultural studies scholars, historians and others, the volume brings together established experts and forward-thinking early career scholars to provide an interdisciplinary engagement with ways of thinking and writing the creaturely to establish a postanthropocentric sense of human-animal relationality.

Inhalt

.- Animating Creaturely Life.- Earth Ethics and Creaturely Cohabitation.- An Address from Elsewhere: Vulnerability, Relationality, and Conceptions of Creaturely Embodiment.- “Creature Comforts”: Crafting a Common Language Across the Species Divide.- Cuts: The Rhythms of ‘Healing-with’ Companion Animals.- A Dog’s Death: Art as a Work of Mourning.- Playing Like a Loser.- Storying Creaturely Life.-  The Collaborative Craft of Creaturely Writing.- Animals as Signifiers: Re-Reading Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things as a Genealogical Working Tool for the Historical Human-Animal Studies.-  Reading Seeing: Literary Form, Affect, and the Creaturely Potential of Focalization.- Creaturely Apotheosis: Posthumanist Vulnerability in Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja.- ‘the impulse towards silence’: Creaturely Expressivity in Beckett and Coetzee.- Fearful Symmetries: Pirandello’s Tiger and the Resistance to Metaphor.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 325 p. 6 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: animals and metaphorization • Animals in J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K • animals ins Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho • “apotheosis of the creature.” • biosociality • creatural lives in the interwar period • Derrida’s poetic as if • dogs and human identity • earth-based ethics • Heidegger’s poiesis • human-animal relationships in the anthropocene • interspecies communication • Luigi Pirandello’s Si gira! • materialism versus semiotics • Michel Foucault and animals • Nick Park’s “Creature Comforts” • Perrudja by Hans Henny Jahnn • postanthropocentrism • video games and prey perspective • zoopoetics
• ISBN-10: 1-349-93437-2 / 1349934372
• ISBN-13: 978-1-349-93437-9 / 9781349934379