Writing Animals

Name: Writing Animals
Brand: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
SKU: 9783030038793
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Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Автор: Timothy C. Baker

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal re...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Timothy C. Baker

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2019

страници

239

EAN

9783030038793

Enbook ID

20392745

Издател

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Теглоt

462

Размери

220 x 156 x 22

Пълно описание

This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.

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