An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World

Birgit Spengler; Babette B. Tischleder

doi:10.14361/9783839445662

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Edition: 1/2019
Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-4566-8
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-4566-2
Publisher: transcript, Bielefeld
Series: Human-Animal Studies
Volume: 20
Language: English
Pages: 340
Product type: Edited Book

Frontmatter Full access Pages 1 - 6
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Introduction: Multispecies Chronotopes- Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human No access Pages 11 - 30
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Cleveland Select No access Pages 33 - 42
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Blood on the Kitchen Table No access Pages 43 - 52
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Flowers No access Pages 53 - 64
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Arboreal Encounters in Richard Powers''s The Overstory No access Pages 65 - 90
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The Lives of Trees No access Pages 91 - 104
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Skunk No access Pages 107 - 108
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"The Citizenry of All Things Within One World": Mary Oliver''s Poetic Explorations of Kinship No access Pages 109 - 122
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Strange Animals in Stylish Habitats: Marianne Moore''s Poetry Revisited No access Pages 123 - 140
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The Beetles-Greatest Hits: The Rhythm ''n'' Sound of Insects No access Pages 141 - 150
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Robert Lowell''s Hidden Cats: From Lord Weary''s Castle to Dolphin No access Pages 151 - 160
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Zoological Encounters No access Pages 161 - 162
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Urban Animals No access Pages 163 - 178
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Notes on Thoreau''s Posthuman Democracy No access Pages 181 - 194
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Sacred Pact or Overkill? Human-Bison Relations in North American Mythologies No access Pages 195 - 210
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Hands: Transdifferent Encounters between Human and Nonhuman Animals No access Pages 211 - 224
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Immanence is Bliss: The Ecological Imagination in Thomas Pynchon''s Gravity''s Rainbow No access Pages 225 - 240
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The Decline of Humanity in a Post-Animal World: The Animal Motif in Cormac McCarthy''s The Road No access Pages 241 - 254
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Uninvited Collaborations with Nature No access Pages 255 - 260
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"Strange Matings" and Cultural Encounters: Octavia Butler''s Fiction as "Companion Species" to Theory No access Pages 263 - 276
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More Than Human? Dracula''s Monstrosity No access Pages 277 - 290
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"Revealing the Wellsprings of Power": An Essay on the Social Function of Humor in "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story" No access Pages 291 - 302
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Empathy with the Animal No access Pages 303 - 310
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Martin Usborne''s Dogs: On Entangled Empathy in The Silence of Dogs in Cars and Where Hunting Dogs Rest No access Pages 311 - 320
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Paws of Courage: The Heroization of Dogs in Contemporary American Culture No access Pages 321 - 334
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Acknowledgements No access Pages 335 - 336
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Biographical Notes No access Pages 337 - 340
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