Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking

Zusammenfassung

Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking explores and reorients our approach to animal thinking through the intersection between literary fiction, continental philosophy, and theory. This book situates animals and animality as neither a corporeal entity nor a conceptual essence, but as a scintillating "impossibility" that concurrently encourages and overturns our grasping impulse to know animals from their perspectives. This framework corresponds with the milieu of literature as poesis, which is uniquely connected to a refusal to know. By exploring the writings of J.M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, Mary Shelley, and Kazuo Ishiguro, this volume encounters a template of animal thinking that seeks to uncover the singularity of animals through a sustained exploration of what remains radically unknowable about animality, the vestiges of which have their presence in the world of literary fiction.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage

1/2024

Copyrightjahr

2024

ISBN-Print

978-1-6669-6395-3

ISBN-Online

978-1-6669-6396-0

Verlag

Lexington, Lanham

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

102

Produkttyp

Monographie