Animal Victims in Modern Fiction : From Sanctity to Sacrifice /
Scholtmeijer, Marian
Animal Victims in Modern Fiction : From Sanctity to Sacrifice / Marian Scholtmeijer. - 1 online resource (352 p.) - Heritage .
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The Darwinian revolution profoundly altered society's conception of animals. Marian Scholtmeijer explores the ways in which modern literature has reflected this change in its attempts to deal with the reality of the autonomous animal and the animal victim. Scholtmeijer considers works of fiction dealing with animal victims in the wild and in urban settings, how they are used to represent human sexual dilemmas, and how the hopes and disillusionments invested in myth generate animal victims. A broad range of authors is represented: Jack London, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Frederick Philip Grove, Mary Webb, Gustave Flaubert, Timothy Findley, John Steinbeck D.H. Lawrence, Jerzy Kosinski, Stephen King, and many others. Her analysis suggests that the issue of the victimization of animals is much more tangled than we might like to believe. Scholtmeijer finds that animals resist assimilation into cultural products, and that, regarded with due attention, they possess a certain power over the themes and narratives that contain them.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802077080 9781487576349
10.3138/9781487576349 doi
Animal sacrifice.
Animals in literature.
Comparative literature--Themes, motives.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Sacrifice in literature.
Victims in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PN3352.A55 / S36 1993eb
809.3/936
Animal Victims in Modern Fiction : From Sanctity to Sacrifice / Marian Scholtmeijer. - 1 online resource (352 p.) - Heritage .
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The Darwinian revolution profoundly altered society's conception of animals. Marian Scholtmeijer explores the ways in which modern literature has reflected this change in its attempts to deal with the reality of the autonomous animal and the animal victim. Scholtmeijer considers works of fiction dealing with animal victims in the wild and in urban settings, how they are used to represent human sexual dilemmas, and how the hopes and disillusionments invested in myth generate animal victims. A broad range of authors is represented: Jack London, Thomas Mann, Ernest Hemingway, Frederick Philip Grove, Mary Webb, Gustave Flaubert, Timothy Findley, John Steinbeck D.H. Lawrence, Jerzy Kosinski, Stephen King, and many others. Her analysis suggests that the issue of the victimization of animals is much more tangled than we might like to believe. Scholtmeijer finds that animals resist assimilation into cultural products, and that, regarded with due attention, they possess a certain power over the themes and narratives that contain them.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802077080 9781487576349
10.3138/9781487576349 doi
Animal sacrifice.
Animals in literature.
Comparative literature--Themes, motives.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Sacrifice in literature.
Victims in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PN3352.A55 / S36 1993eb
809.3/936