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Modern Animalism : Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature / Glenn Willmott.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781442643178
  • 9781442695580
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.911 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.P7 W54 2012eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Modern Habitats -- Chapter Two. Problem Creatures -- Chapter Three. Surviving History -- Chapter Four. Growing Wonder -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: From T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney to C. S. Lewis’s Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these ‘modern primitive’ figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters?Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal ‘problem creature’ in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present - including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, and Morrison. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Modern Habitats -- Chapter Two. Problem Creatures -- Chapter Three. Surviving History -- Chapter Four. Growing Wonder -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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From T. S. Eliot’s Sweeney to C. S. Lewis’s Aslan, modern writing has been filled with strange new hybrid human-animal creatures. Feeding on consumer society, these ‘modern primitive’ figures often challenge mainstream ideals by discovering wealth in habitats and resources rather than in economic exchange. What compels our post-human identification with these characters?Modern Animalism explores representations of the human-animal ‘problem creature’ in a broad assortment of literature and comics from the late nineteenth century to the present - including authors such as Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Moore, Murakami, Pullman, Coetzee, and Atwood, and comics creators such as McCay, Herriman, Miyazaki, and Morrison. Drawing on a wide range of scholarship, from environmental economics to psychology, Glenn Willmott examines modern and post-modern allegories of the environment, the animal, and economics, highlighting the enduring and seductive appeal of the modern primitive in an age when living with less remains a powerful cultural wish.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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