@article{931952,
      recid = {931952},
      author = {Kulcsár-Szabó, Zoltán, and Lénárt, Tamás. and Simon,  Attila, and Végső, Roland.},
      title = {Life after literature : perspectives on biopoetics in  literature and theory /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (280 pages).},
      year = {2020},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book offers innovative investigations of the concept  of life in art and in theory. It features essays that  explore biopoetics and look at how insights from the  natural sciences shape research within the humanities.  Since literature, works of art, and other cultural products  decisively shape our ideas of what it means to be human,  the contributors to this volume examine the question of  what literature, literary and cultural criticism, and  philosophy contribute to the distinctions (or  non-distinctions) between human, animal, and vegetal  existence. Coverage combines different methodological  aspects and addresses a wide field of comparative literary  studies. The essays consider the question of language (as a  distinctive feature of human existence) in a number of  different contexts, which range from Aristotles works,  through several historical layers of the philosophical  discourse on the origins of speech, to modern anthropology,  and 20th century continental philosophy. In addition, the  volume includes concrete case studies to the current  post-humanism debate and provides literary, art historian,  and philosophical perspectives on animal studies. The  historical multiplicity of the various cultural  representations of biological existence (be that human,  animal, vegetal, or mixed) might serve as a productive  foundation for discussing the nature and forms of  literatures critical contributions to our understanding of  these fundamental categories. This volume opens up this  subject to students and scholars of literature, art,  philosophy, ethics, and cultural studies, and to anyone  with a theoretical interest in the questions of life.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/931952},
}