TY - BOOK AU - Breinig,Helmbrecht AU - Brinckmann,Christine N. AU - Buschendorf,Christa AU - Fetterley,Judith AU - Franke,Astrid AU - Haselstein,Ulla AU - Herzogenrath,Bernd AU - Holmgren Troy,Maria AU - Katchadourian,Nina AU - Kilcup,Karen L. AU - Lillge,Claudia AU - Mackenthun,Gesa AU - Majewska,Magda AU - Sarkowsky,Katja AU - Scharf,Susanne AU - Scholz,Susanne AU - Sielke,Sabine AU - Spengler,Birgit AU - Tischleder,Babette B. AU - Twelbeck,Kirsten AU - Voelz,Johannes AU - Wendt,Simon AU - Wiser,Yvonne TI - An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World T2 - Human-Animal Studies SN - 9783839445662 U1 - 100 PY - 2019///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - Animal History KW - Animal Studies KW - Animal KW - Anthropocene KW - Critical Plant Studies KW - Cultural Studies KW - Culture KW - Ecocriticism KW - Human KW - Literary Studies KW - Nonhuman Studies KW - Photography KW - Posthumanism KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - bisacsh KW - North American Ecocriticism N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Multispecies Chronotopes— Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human --; Vegetal Life and Plant Poetics --; Cleveland Select --; Blood on the Kitchen Table --; Flowers --; Arboreal Encounters in Richard Powers’s The Overstory --; Photo Series #1 --; The Lives of Trees --; Sonic Bugs and Lyrical Beasts --; Skunk --; “The Citizenry of All Things Within One World”: Mary Oliver’s Poetic Explorations of Kinship --; Strange Animals in Stylish Habitats: Marianne Moore’s Poetry Revisited --; The Beetles—Greatest Hits: The Rhythm ’n’ Sound of Insects --; Robert Lowell’s Hidden Cats: From Lord Weary’s Castle to Dolphin --; Zoological Encounters --; Photo Series #2 --; Urban Animals --; Political Ecologies in a Multispecies World --; Notes on Thoreau’s Posthuman Democracy --; Sacred Pact or Overkill? Human-Bison Relations in North American Mythologies --; Hands: Transdifferent Encounters between Human and Nonhuman Animals --; Immanence is Bliss: The Ecological Imagination in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow --; The Decline of Humanity in a Post-Animal World: The Animal Motif in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road --; Art Work --; Uninvited Collaborations with Nature --; With and Beyond Nonhumans: Encounters, Empathy, Entanglements --; “Strange Matings” and Cultural Encounters: Octavia Butler’s Fiction as “Companion Species” to Theory --; More Than Human? Dracula’s Monstrosity --; “Revealing the Wellsprings of Power”: An Essay on the Social Function of Humor in “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” --; Empathy with the Animal --; Martin Usborne’s Dogs: On Entangled Empathy in The Silence of Dogs in Cars and Where Hunting Dogs Rest --; Paws of Courage: The Heroization of Dogs in Contemporary American Culture --; Acknowledgements --; Biographical Notes; restricted access N2 - The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839445662?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839445662 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839445662/original ER -