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Author : Katharine M. Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cat and the Human Imagination written by Katharine M. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art
Author : Katharine M. Rogers
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472087501
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cat and the Human Imagination written by Katharine M. Rogers and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001-03-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art
Author : Aaron Gross
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152973
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)
Download or read book Animals and the Human Imagination written by Aaron Gross and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection reflects the growth of animal studies as an independent field and the rise of 'animality' as a critical lens through which to analyze society and culture, on par with race and gender.
Author : Katharine M. Rogers
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861892928
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cat written by Katharine M. Rogers and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-12-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining look at the cat, one of the most popular pets in the world.
Author : John Gray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374718792
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Feline Philosophy written by John Gray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world. In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.
Author : Daniel Dor
Publisher : Foundations of Human Interacti
ISBN 13 : 0190256621
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Instruction of Imagination written by Daniel Dor and published by Foundations of Human Interacti. This book was released on 2015 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book presents a new general theory of language as a collectively-constructed communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that is dedicated to a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. The theory re-frames all the major questions in the linguistic sciences, and opens the way towards the re-unification of the field"--
Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385533977
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book In Other Worlds written by Margaret Atwood and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illuminates the essential truths about the modern world. This is an exploration of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as "science fiction,” a relationship that has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, where she worked on the Victorian ancestor of the form, and continuing as a writer and reviewer. This book brings together her three heretofore unpublished Ellmann Lectures from 2010: "Flying Rabbits," which begins with Atwood's early rabbit superhero creations, and goes on to speculate about masks, capes, weakling alter egos, and Things with Wings; "Burning Bushes," which follows her into Victorian otherlands and beyond; and "Dire Cartographies," which investigates Utopias and Dystopias. In Other Worlds also includes some of Atwood's key reviews and thoughts about the form. Among those writers discussed are Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula Le Guin, Ishiguro, Bryher, Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. She elucidates the differences (as she sees them) between "science fiction" proper, and "speculative fiction," as well as between "sword and sorcery/fantasy" and "slipstream fiction." For all readers who have loved The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Year of the Flood, In Other Worlds is a must. Note: The electronic version of this title contains over thirty additional, illuminating eBook-exclusive illustrations by the author.
Author : Sandra Choron
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618812592
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Planet Cat written by Sandra Choron and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than four hundred lists on various information on cats, including cat breeds, training, and behavior, as well as such topics as famous cats in history, cat food recipes, and gifts for pampered cats.
Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Night Shade
ISBN 13 : 9781949102611
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tails of Wonder and Imagination written by Ellen Datlow and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about the cat that captivates the creative imagination? No other creature has inspired so many authors to take pen to page. From legendary editor Ellen Datlow comes Tails of Wonder and Imagination, showcasing tales of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror by some of today's most popular authors. With stories by Stephen King, Carol Emshwiller, Tanith Lee, Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Hand, Dennis Danvers, Theodora Goss, Susanna Clarke, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, George R. R. Martin, Lucius Shepard, Joyce Carol Oates, Graham Joyce, Catherynne M. Valente, Michael Marshall Smith, and many others. Tails of Wonder and Imagination features more than forty stories in which cats are heroes and stories in which they’re villains; tales of domestic cats, tigers, lions, mythical part-cat beings, people transformed into cats, cats transformed into people. And yes, even a few cute cats.
Author : Mildred Kirk
Publisher : Galahad Books
ISBN 13 : 9780883659465
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Everlasting Cat written by Mildred Kirk and published by Galahad Books. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful book for all animal lovers, The Everlasting Cat takes an historical look at the cat's unique hold on the human imagination and points out its place in religion, folklore, and literature, presenting a refreshing approach to understanding our perception of the feline mystique. Carefully researched, this fascinating volume addresses the myths and superstitions about cats in such contexts as philosophy, legend, folklore, fairy tales and ancient civilizations, sometimes startling the reader with the stranger beliefs about cats and the bizarre roles assigned to them.
