Beyond the Human-Animal Divide

Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture

Dominik Ohrem, Roman Bartosch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

325 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
9781137603098 (ISBN)

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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 "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.

.- 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.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Zusatzinfo	6 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 325 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	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-13	9781137603098 / 9781137603098
Zustand	Neuware