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An Eclectic Bestiary : Encounters in a More-than-Human World / ed. by Babette B. Tischleder, Birgit Spengler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Human-Animal Studies ; 20Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2019]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783839445662
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  • 100
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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