TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scholtmeijer,Marian
TI  - Animal Victims in Modern Fiction: From Sanctity to Sacrifice 
T2  - Heritage
SN  - 9780802077080
AV  - PN3352.A55 S36 1993eb
U1  - 809.3/936 20
PY  - 1993///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Animal sacrifice
KW  - Animals in literature
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Human-animal relationships in literature
KW  - Sacrifice in literature
KW  - Victims in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
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