Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Work / by Damiano Benvegnù.
2018
BJ1-1725
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Title
Animals and Animality in Primo Levi's Work / by Damiano Benvegnù.
Author
Benvegnù, Damiano., author
Edition
1st ed. 2018.
ISBN
3319712586
9783319712581
9783319712581
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XX, 298 pages 1 illustration)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-71258-1 doi
Call Number
BJ1-1725
Dewey Decimal Classification
170
Summary
Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987). Relatively unexamined by scholars, the complex and extensive animal imagery Levi employed in his literary works offers new insights into the aesthetical and ethical function of testimony, as well as an original perspective on contemporary debates surrounding human-animal relationships and posthumanism. The three main sections that compose the book mirror Levi's approach to non-human animals and animality: from an unquestionable bio-ethical origin ("Suffering"); through an investigation of the relationships between writing, technology, and animality ("Techne"); to then enter upon a creative intellectual project in which literary animals both counterbalance the inevitable suffering of all creatures, and suggest a transformative image of interspecific community ("Creation").
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction. Primo Levi and the Question of the Animal
2. Suffering I. Shared Vulnerability
3. Suffering II. Muteness and Testimony
4. Techne I. Animal Hands
5. Techne II. Hybrids and Hubris
6. Creation I.A New Writing
7. Creation II. Re-Enchantment
8. Conclusion. Animal Testimony
Index.
2. Suffering I. Shared Vulnerability
3. Suffering II. Muteness and Testimony
4. Techne I. Animal Hands
5. Techne II. Hybrids and Hubris
6. Creation I.A New Writing
7. Creation II. Re-Enchantment
8. Conclusion. Animal Testimony
Index.