The animal part: human and other animals in the poetic imagination
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1. Verfasser: Payne, Mark 1967- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2010
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Imagining animals -- The abject animal -- The beast in pain: abjection and aggression in Archilochus and William Carlos Williams -- Destruction and creation: the work of men and animals in Gustave Flaubert, Gerald Manley Hopkins, and Ezra Pound -- Becoming something else -- Beyond the pale: joining the society of animals in Aristophanes, Herman Melville, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Changing bodies: being and becoming an animal in Semonides, Ovid, and H.P. Lovecraft -- I do not know what it is I am like
This study explores the imaginative identification with animals enabled by aggression and the narcissistic aversion from them manifested as destructiveness. It explores the attraction to the society of other animals that finds expression in stories about human beings who try to join them, and the affects that cluster around the possibility that the human body is susceptible in various ways to becoming animal
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (164 pages)
ISBN:0226650847
0226650855
9780226650845
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