Chris Danta

Animal Fables after Darwin

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Produktbeschreibung

A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428200
• ISBN-10: 1108428207
• Artikelnr.: 51142784

Autorenporträt

Chris Danta is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is the author of Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot (2011) and the co-editor of Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction (2011) and Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind (2013). He has published articles in New Literary History, Modernism/modernity, Angelaki, Textual Practice, Sub-Stance, and Literature & Theology.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: uplifting animals
1. Looking up, looking down: orientations of the human
2. The grotesque mouth
3. 'The highest civilisation among ants': Stevenson and the fable
4. 'An animal among the animals': Wells and the thought of the future
5. Animal bachelors and animal brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett
6. Scapegoats and scapegraces: becoming sacrificial animal in Kafka and Coetzee
Coda: 'Diogenes of the zoo'.