Novel creatures: animal life and the new millennium

Novel Creaturestakes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern fiction and argues that the novels of this time reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human...

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Main Author: Thompson, Hilary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2018
Series:Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
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Summary:Novel Creaturestakes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern fiction and argues that the novels of this time reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human and animal experience, thus moving beyond work that primarily attends to distinctions between the human and the animal. Carrying forward this recent scholarship, Novel Creaturesargues that creatureliness has been an intensely millennial preoccupation, but in two contrasting forms--one leading up to the turn of the century, the other after the tragic events of 9/11
Item Description:Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 15, 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource
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