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An eclectic bestiary : encounters in a more-than-human world / Birgit Spengler, Babette B. Tischleder (eds.).

Additional Titles
Encounters in a more-than-human world
Published
Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2019]
Physical Description
1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Spengler, Birgit and Tischleder, Babette Bärbel, 1968-
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Language Note
In English.
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, and 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.
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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ISBN
3839445663
3837645665
9783837645668
9783839445662 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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