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Title: Reading Cats and Dogs
Condition: New
Subtitle: Companion Animals in World Literature
ISBN-10: 1793611068
EAN: 9781793611062
ISBN: 9781793611062
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 15/12/2020
Description: Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosophy, literature, and film devoted to human relationships with companion species. In addition to illuminating famous animal stories by Beatrix Potter, Jack London, Italo Svevo, and Michael Ondaatje, readers are introduced to the dog poems of Shuntarō Tanikawa, a Turkish documentary on stray cats as neighborhood companions, and the representation of diverse animal companions in Cameroonian novels. Focusing on “Stray and Feral Companions,” “The Usefulness of Companion Animals,” and “Problematizing Companion Animals,” Reading Cats and Dogs aims both to confirm and topple readers’ assumptions about the fellow travelers with whom we share our lives, our streets and fields, and our planet. Fifteen contributors from various countries reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and psychological complexities of our multispecies relationships, demonstrating the richness of ecocritical animal studies.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 241mm
Item Length: 160mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 553g
Contributor: Claire Cazajous-Augé (Contributions by), Qianqian Cheng (Contributions by), Lorraine Kerslake (Contributions by), Zélia M. Bora (Edited by), Athane Adrahane (Contributions by), Marianne Marroum (Edited by), Karla Armbruster (Contributions by), Kev Reynolds (Contributions by), Anna Re (Contributions by), Scott Slovic (Edited by), Niroshini Gunasekera (Contributions by), Marianne Marroum (Contributions by), Scott Slovic (Contributions by), Kenneth Toah Nsah (Contributions by), Wendy Woodward (Contributions by), Zélia M. Bora (Contributions by), Chen Hong (Contributions by), Keita Hatooka (Contributions by), Önder C¸etin (Contributions by), Françoise Besson (Contributions by), Françoise Besson (Edited by)
Genre: Home Garden & Pets
Book Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Topic: Literary Criticism
Author: Françoise Besson
Release Year: 2020
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