Animal fables after Darwin: literature, speciesism, and metaphor
"The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris...
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Zusammenfassung: | "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu"... |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
PROLOGUE: UPLIFTING ANIMALS; 1. LOOKING UP, LOOKING DOWN: ORIENTATIONS
OF THE HUMAN; 2. THE GROTESQUE MOUTH; 3. THE HIGHEST CIVILISATION AMONG
ANTS : STEVENSON AND THE FABLE; 4. AN ANIMAL AMONG THE ANIMALS : WELLS
AND THE THOUGHT OF THE FUTURE; 5. ANIMAL BACHELORS AND ANIMAL BRIDES:
KAFKA, CARTER, GARNETT; 6. SCAPEGOATS AND SCAPEGRACES: BECOMING
SACRIFICIAL ANIMAL IN KAFKA AND COETZEE; CODA: DIOGENES OF THE ZOO
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
Contents
List of Figures page viii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Uplifting Animals i
1 Looking Up, Looking Down: Orientations of the Human 4
2 The Grotesque Mouth 37
3 “The Highest Civilisation among Ants”:
Stevenson and the Fable 61
4 “An Animal among the Animals”: Wells and the Thought
of the Future 96
5 Animal Bachelors and Animal Brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett 129
6 Scapegoats and Scapegraces: Becoming Sacrificial Animal in
Kafka and Coetzee 159
Coda: “Diogenes of the Zoo” 186
References 194
Index 209
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