Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture

Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture
Title Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Danette DiMarco
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 273
Release 2022-03-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1666901822

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Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination closes the gap between ornithological and humanities knowledge. This book contains fifteen innovative essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies in order to include birds in current conversations within the field of animal studies. This collection challenges species centrism, advances a biodiverse ontology, and embraces bird-centered topics as diverse as gaming, comic strips, window collisions, conservation literature, youth birding, mourning theory, and the “Birds Aren’t Real” movement.

Reintegrating Severance

Reintegrating Severance
Title Reintegrating Severance PDF eBook
Author Nora M. Isacoff
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 291
Release
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ISBN 3031574486

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The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature

The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature
Title The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature PDF eBook
Author Dilek Bulut Sarikaya
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 135
Release 2023-01-09
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1666928860

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In The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature: A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II, Dilek Bulut Sarikaya explores medieval Anatolia, where humans' connectivity to nonhuman animals was not yet disrupted by the capitalist economic systems and demonstrates how ancient societies treated nonhuman animals as self-conscious, spiritual individuals, capable of feeling pain with highly advanced forms of intentionality.

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman

Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman
Title Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman PDF eBook
Author Matthias Stephan
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 285
Release 2022-05-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1666903779

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Interrogating Boundaries of the Nonhuman: Literature, Climate Change, and Environmental Crises asks whether literary works that interrogate and alter the terms of human-nonhuman relations can point to new, more sustainable ways forward. Bringing insights from the field of literary animal studies, a diverse and international group of scholars examine literary contributions to the ecological framing of human-nonhuman relationships. Collectively, the contributors to this edited collection contemplate the role of literature in the setting of environmental agendas and in determining humanity’s path forward in the company of nonhuman others.

Indian Feminist Ecocriticism

Indian Feminist Ecocriticism
Title Indian Feminist Ecocriticism PDF eBook
Author Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 257
Release 2022-08-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 166690872X

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Following Françoise d’Eaubonne’s creation of the term “ecofeminism” in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to literary criticism, also known as feminist ecocriticism. The most recent of these include anthologies that emphasize international perspectives, furthering the comparative task launched by Mies and Shiva. To date, however, there have been no books devoted to gaining a broad-based understanding of feminist ecocriticism in India, understood in its own terms. Our new volume Indian Feminist Ecocriticism offers a survey of literature as seen through an ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India.

Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales

Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales
Title Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales PDF eBook
Author Keita Hatooka
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 167
Release 2022-08-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 179365588X

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Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism examines case studies of animal representation in Pynchon’s texts, such as alligators in the sewer in V.; the alligator purse in Bleeding Edge; dolphins in the Miami Seaquarium in The Crying of Lot 49; dodoes, pigs, and octopuses in Gravity’s Rainbow; Bigfoot and Godzilla in Vineland and Inherent Vice; and preternatural dogs and mythical worms in Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. Through this exploration, Keita Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings. Furthermore, by conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers, Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales leads readers to draw great lessons from the fables, which stimulate our ecocritical thought for tomorrow.

The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest

The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest
Title The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest PDF eBook
Author Stacy Hoult
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 167
Release 2023-04-11
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1793648689

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The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest: Uncanny Encounters investigates the functions of nonhuman animal imagery in diverse narratives of the Conquest of the Americas. The author's explications of film, poetry, literary and popular fiction, and theme park spaces draw on postcolonial and animal theory, deconstructive and Freudian literary criticism, and radical social theory. She argues that animals in these texts function on two levels: while they play a key role in the development of both Indigenous and European characters, depictions of their treatment and symbolic charge consistently work to disrupt narratives that seek to present the Conquest as a mutually beneficial "encounter" between two cultures. The close readings of animal imagery in texts ranging from Pablo Neruda's poetry to the animated film The Road to El Dorado represent a fresh approach to questions surrounding the depictions of Indigenous Americans and the motivations, tactics, and lasting contributions of the invading culture.