An Eclectic Bestiary
Encounters in a More-than-Human World
The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 6 -
Contents
Seiten 7 - 10 -
Introduction: Multispecies Chronotopes- Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human
Seiten 11 - 30 -
Vegetal Life and Plant Poetics
Cleveland Select
Seiten 33 - 42 -
Blood on the Kitchen Table
Seiten 43 - 52 -
Flowers
Seiten 53 - 64 -
Arboreal Encounters in Richard Powers's The Overstory
Seiten 65 - 90 -
Photo Series #1
The Lives of Trees
Seiten 91 - 104 -
Sonic Bugs and Lyrical Beasts
Skunk
Seiten 107 - 108 -
"The Citizenry of All Things Within One World": Mary Oliver's Poetic Explorations of Kinship
Seiten 109 - 122 -
Strange Animals in Stylish Habitats: Marianne Moore's Poetry Revisited
Seiten 123 - 140 -
The Beetles-Greatest Hits: The Rhythm 'n' Sound of Insects
Seiten 141 - 150 -
Robert Lowell's Hidden Cats: From Lord Weary's Castle to Dolphin
Seiten 151 - 160 -
Zoological Encounters
Seiten 161 - 162 -
Photo Series #2
Urban Animals
Seiten 163 - 178 -
Political Ecologies in a Multispecies World
Notes on Thoreau's Posthuman Democracy
Seiten 181 - 194 -
Sacred Pact or Overkill? Human-Bison Relations in North American Mythologies
Seiten 195 - 210 -
Hands: Transdifferent Encounters between Human and Nonhuman Animals
Seiten 211 - 224 -
Immanence is Bliss: The Ecological Imagination in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
Seiten 225 - 240 -
The Decline of Humanity in a Post-Animal World: The Animal Motif in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Seiten 241 - 254 -
Art Work
Uninvited Collaborations with Nature
Seiten 255 - 260 -
With and Beyond Nonhumans: Encounters, Empathy, Entanglements
"Strange Matings" and Cultural Encounters: Octavia Butler's Fiction as "Companion Species" to Theory
Seiten 263 - 276 -
More Than Human? Dracula's Monstrosity
Seiten 277 - 290 -
"Revealing the Wellsprings of Power": An Essay on the Social Function of Humor in "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story"
Seiten 291 - 302 -
Empathy with the Animal
Seiten 303 - 310 -
Martin Usborne's Dogs: On Entangled Empathy in The Silence of Dogs in Cars and Where Hunting Dogs Rest
Seiten 311 - 320 -
Paws of Courage: The Heroization of Dogs in Contemporary American Culture
Seiten 321 - 334 -
Acknowledgements
Seiten 335 - 336 -
Biographical Notes
Seiten 337 - 340
3. Juni 2019, 340 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4566-8
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