Figuring animals : essays on animal images in art, literature, philosophy, and popular culture /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. |
| Description: | xi, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5569658 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Social Animal
- Lost Dog, or, Levinas Faces the Animal
- Ursus Americanus: The Idea of a Bear
- Digging and Leveling in Adam's Garden: Women and the International Cat Fancy
- Part 2. The Observed and the Observer
- Animal Testimony in Renaissance Art: Angelic and Other Supernatural Visitations
- Strange Yet "Familiar": Cats and Birds in Remedios Varo's Artistic Universe
- Who's Looking?: The Animal Gaze in the Fiction of Brigitte Kronauer and Clarice Lispector
- Part 3. Art and Science
- Burning Out the Animal: The Failure of Enlightenment Purification in H.G. Wells'sThe Island of Dr. Moreau
- Ouida's Rhetoric of Empathy: A Case Study in Victorian Anti-Vivisection Narrative
- Part 4. Difference and Desire
- The Black Stallion in Print and Film
- "Who Are the Bander-log?": The Child and the Animal in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli Stories and Ursula LeGuin's "Buffalo Gals Won't You Come Out Tonight?"
- To the Other: The Animal and Desire in Michael Field'sWhymchow: Flame of Love
- "Identification with the Animals": Language, Subjectivity, and the Animal-Politics of Atwood'sSurfacing
- Part 5. Theories of the Other
- Sensory Experience as Consciousness in Literary Representations of Animal Minds
- Human-Animal Affiliation in Modern Popular Film
- Who May Speak for the Animals?: Deep Ecology in Linda Hogan'sPowerand A.A. Carr'sEye Killers
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
