Canis Modernis

Author : Karalyn Kendall-Morwick
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271088389
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canis Modernis written by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist literature might well be accused of going to the dogs. From the strays wandering the streets of Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses to the highbred canine subject of Virginia Woolf’s Flush, dogs populate a range of modernist texts. In many ways, the dog in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became a potent symbol of the modern condition—facing, like the human species, the problem of adapting to modernizing forces that relentlessly outpaced it. Yet the dog in literary modernism does not function as a stand-in for the human. In this book, Karalyn Kendall-Morwick examines the human-dog relationship in modernist works by Virginia Woolf, Jack London, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, and Samuel Beckett, among others. Drawing from the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and the scientific, literary, and philosophical work of Donna Haraway, Temple Grandin, and Carrie Rohman, she makes a case for the dog as a coevolutionary and coadapting partner of humans. As our coevolutionary partners, dogs destabilize the human: not the autonomous, self-transparent subject of Western humanism, the human is instead contingent, shaped by its material interactions with other species. By demonstrating how modernist representations of dogs ultimately mongrelize the human, this book reveals dogs’ status both as instigators of the crisis of the modern subject and as partners uniquely positioned to help humans adapt to the turbulent forces of modernization. Accessibly written and convincingly argued, this study shows how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms. It will find favor with students and scholars of modernist literature and animal studies.

Author : Karalyn Kendall-Morwick
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271088400
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canis Modernis written by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist literature might well be accused of going to the dogs. From the strays wandering the streets of Dublin in James Joyce’s Ulysses to the highbred canine subject of Virginia Woolf’s Flush, dogs populate a range of modernist texts. In many ways, the dog in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became a potent symbol of the modern condition—facing, like the human species, the problem of adapting to modernizing forces that relentlessly outpaced it. Yet the dog in literary modernism does not function as a stand-in for the human. In this book, Karalyn Kendall-Morwick examines the human-dog relationship in modernist works by Virginia Woolf, Jack London, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, and Samuel Beckett, among others. Drawing from the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and the scientific, literary, and philosophical work of Donna Haraway, Temple Grandin, and Carrie Rohman, she makes a case for the dog as a coevolutionary and coadapting partner of humans. As our coevolutionary partners, dogs destabilize the human: not the autonomous, self-transparent subject of Western humanism, the human is instead contingent, shaped by its material interactions with other species. By demonstrating how modernist representations of dogs ultimately mongrelize the human, this book reveals dogs’ status both as instigators of the crisis of the modern subject and as partners uniquely positioned to help humans adapt to the turbulent forces of modernization. Accessibly written and convincingly argued, this study shows how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms. It will find favor with students and scholars of modernist literature and animal studies.

Author : Derek Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009300059
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals written by Derek Ryan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of animals and animality across the span of literary history, from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004279172
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of the different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. Early modern reading of the “Book of Nature” comprised, among others, the description of species in the literary tradition of antiquity, as well as empirical observations, vivisection, and modern eyewitness accounts; the “translation” of zoological species into visual art for devotion, prayer, and religious education, but also scientific and scholarly curiosity; theoretical, philosophical, and theological thinking regarding God’s creation, the Flood, and the generation of animals; new attempts with respect to nomenclature and taxonomy; the discovery of unknown species in the New World; impressive Wunderkammer collections, and the keeping of exotic animals in princely menageries. The volume demonstrates that theology and philology played a pivotal role in the complex formation of this new science. Contributors include: Brian Ogilvie, Bernd Roling, Erik Jorink, Paul Smith, Sabine Kalff, Tamás Demeter, Amanda Herrin, Marrigje Rikken, Alexander Loose, Sophia Hendrikx, and Karl Enenkel.

Author : Modern Language Association of America
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publications of the Modern Language Association of America written by Modern Language Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.

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Publisher : Dejan Beukovic
ISBN 13 : 867834153X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern aspects of sustainable management written by and published by Dejan Beukovic. This book was released on with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John G. Robertson
Publisher : Senior Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780963091901
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robertson's Words for a Modern Age written by John G. Robertson and published by Senior Scribe Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Devin Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009184881
Total Pages : 275 pages
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Download or read book After Darwin written by Devin Griffiths and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to imagine how specific patterns came to be over time, spinning yarns filled with protagonists and antagonists, crises, triumphs, and tragedies. His fictions also forged striking new possibilities for the interpretation of human societies and their relation to natural environments. This volume gathers an international roster of scholars to ask what Darwin's writing offers future of literary scholarship and critical theory, as well as allied fields like history, art history, philosophy, gender studies, disability studies, the history of race, aesthetics, and ethics. It speaks to anyone interested in the impact of Darwin on the humanities, including literary scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and general readers interested in Darwin's continuing influence.

Author : Roberta L. Hall
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483267830
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wolf and Man written by Roberta L. Hall and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf and Man: Evolution in Parallel is a collection of papers that discusses certain crucial attributes of humans including traits that are shared with other social predators. Some papers describe the wolf as the equal of man—the animal is a social hunter of large game, disregards human boundaries and properties, and consume livestock when it is necessary. The wolf's will to survive is as great as that of man, and brings along many resources to the competition. Several papers review the behavior and culture of man, wolf, dog, and the Chipewyan people who hunted caribou. Another paper examines the communication, cognitive mapping, and strategy in wolves and hominids. Hominids have developed cognitive maps, forced by their predation on large animals to cover wider ranges, to communicate and form complex sequences of utterances. One paper notes that the wolf was able to penetrate on every continent except Australia and Africa due to the Australian continent's isolation. In Africa, there is no ecological space for another highly organized social hunter of large game. The collection can be appreciated by anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and scientists involved in paleontology and human evolution.

Author : Keith Botelho
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271094656
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance written by Keith Botelho and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-01-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—and with—insect and arachnid life. The conversations in this two-volume set address the collaborative, multigenerational research that produced early modern natural history and provide new insights into the old question of what it means to be human in a world populated by beasts large and small. Volume 2, Concepts, explores ideas that cut across species, insect and otherwise, both building on and invigorating critical vocabularies developed over nearly two decades of early modern animal studies. The contributors explore topics such as the medical and culinary consumption of insects; extermination campaigns; the auditory and emotive effects of a swarm; insects and politics; and notions of infestation, stinging, and creeping. Throughout, they illuminate how early modern science and literature worked as intersecting systems of knowledge production about the natural world and show definitively how insect life was, and remains, intimately entangled with human life. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume include Lucinda Cole, Frances E. Dolan, Lowell Duckert, Andrew Fleck, Rebecca Laroche, Jennifer Munroe, Amy L. Tigner, Jessica Lynn Wolfe, Derek Woods, and Julian Yates.