What Is Zoopoetics? : Texts, Bodies, Entanglement
Driscoll, Kári, editor; Hoffmann, Eva, editor
2018
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Title What Is Zoopoetics? : Texts, Bodies, Entanglement
ISBN 9783319644165
3319644165
9783319644158
3319644157
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64416-5
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XI, 284 pages) online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-64416-5 doi
Call Number PN695-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification 809
Summary This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study"i.e. texts from various traditions and periods that reflect, explicitly or implicitly, on the relationship between animality, language and representation"and as a methodological problem for animal studies, and, indeed, for literary studies more generally. What can literary animal studies tell us about literature that conventional literary studies might be blind to? How can literary studies resist the tendency to press animals into symbolic service as metaphors and allegories for the human whilst also avoiding a naïve literalism with respect to the literary animal? The volume is divided into three sections: "Texts," which focuses on the linguistic and metaphorical dimensions of zoopoetics; "Bodies," which is primarily concerned with mimesis and questions of embodiment, performance, and lived experience; and "Entanglement," which focuses on interspecies encounters and the complex interplay between word and world that emerges from them. The volume will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of animal studies, area studies and comparative literature, gender studies, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and the broader field of posthumanism.
Note This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study"i.e. texts from various traditions and periods that reflect, explicitly or implicitly, on the relationship between animality, language and representation"and as a methodological problem for animal studies, and, indeed, for literary studies more generally. What can literary animal studies tell us about literature that conventional literary studies might be blind to? How can literary studies resist the tendency to press animals into symbolic service as metaphors and allegories for the human whilst also avoiding a naïve literalism with respect to the literary animal? The volume is divided into three sections: "Texts," which focuses on the linguistic and metaphorical dimensions of zoopoetics; "Bodies," which is primarily concerned with mimesis and questions of embodiment, performance, and lived experience; and "Entanglement," which focuses on interspecies encounters and the complex interplay between word and world that emerges from them. The volume will appeal to scholars and students in the fields of animal studies, area studies and comparative literature, gender studies, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, and the broader field of posthumanism.
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1. Introduction: What is Zoopoetics?
Kári Driscoll & Eva Hoffmann
2. Prelude: "I Observe with My Pen"
Marcel Beyer
3. Hunting Narratives: Capturing the Lives of Animals
Nicolas Picard
4. 'You Cannot Escape from Your Moles': The Becoming-Animal of Günter Eich's Late Literary Texts
Belinda Kleinhans,
5. The Grammar of Zoopoetics: Human and Canine Language Play
Joela Jacobs
6. 'Sire, says the fox': Zoopoetics and Zoopolitics of the Fable in Kleist's 'On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Speaking'
Sebastian Schönbeck
7. 'The Light That Therefore I Give (to)': Paleonymy and Animal Supplementarity in Clarice Lispector's The Apple in the Dark
Rodolfo Piskorski
8. Constituents of a Chaos: Whale Bodies and the Zoopoetics of Moby-Dick
Michaela Castellanos
9. Queering the Interspecies Encounter: Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear
Eva Hoffmann
10. Myth, Absence, Haunting: Towards a Zoopoetics of Extinction
Paul Sheehan
11. Spinning Theory: Three Figures of Arachnopoetics
Matthias Preuss
12. Impersonal Love: Nightwood's Poetics of Mournful Entanglement
13. Between Encounter and Release: Animal Presences in Two Contemporary American Poems
Ann Marie Thornburg
14. Heading South into Town: ipipipipipipip, ah yeah, um, we're gonna, yeah, ip
Catherine Clover
15. Coda: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Marcel Beyer

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