Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking

Ratul Nandi

doi:10.5771/9781666963960

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

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. Dedication Kein Zugriff
2. Contents Kein Zugriff
3. Foreword Kein Zugriff
4. Acknowledgments Kein Zugriff
1. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. The Lives of the Animals Kein Zugriff
2. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. The Kafkan Turn Kein Zugriff
2. The Metamorphosis Kein Zugriff
3. A Report to an Academy Kein Zugriff
4. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. Frankenstein Kein Zugriff
2. Never Let Me Go Kein Zugriff
3. Notes Kein Zugriff
1. Notes Kein Zugriff
Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 89 - 96
Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 97 - 100
About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 101 - 102