Wojciech Malecki, Piotr Sorokowski, Boguslaw Pawlowski

Human Minds and Animal Stories

How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining psychological research with insights from animal studies, ecocriticism and other fields in the environmental humanities, the book provides evidence that animal stories can make us care for other species, their effects more complex and fascinating than we have ever thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780367146047
• ISBN-10: 0367146045
• Artikelnr.: 55337530

Autorenporträt

Wojciech Mäecki is assistant professor at the University of Wroc¿aw, Poland. He specializes in literary theory, ecocriticism, animal studies, American pragmatism, aesthetics, and the empirical study of literature. He is the author and editor of five books and of numerous articles published in journals such as The Oxford Literary Review, Poetics, Angelaki, and PLoS One. Piotr Sorokowski is associate professor and head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wroc¿aw, Poland. He has published more than seventy research articles related to evolutionary, cultural, and social psychology, including in Nature, Evolution and Human Behavior, and Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. His work has been discussed by the media all over the world, including BBC, CNN, Time, and The New Yorker. Bogus¿aw Paw¿owski is head of the Department of Human Biology at the University of Wroc¿aw, Poland. He deals with human behavior and preferences in relationship to body morphology and physiology. He has published more than eighty papers in top journals in his field (e.g. in Nature, PNAS, Proc. Roy. Soc. B., Current Anthropology) and dozens of book chapters. He is the President of the Polish Society for Human and Evolution Studies (PTNCE). Marcin Cie¿ski is professor of literary history and comparative literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Wroc¿aw. His research interests include eighteenth-century and contemporary literature. He has authored and edited more than 150 publications, including The Landscapes of the Enlightened; Polish Enlightenment Literature and the European Tradition; and Polish Humanism and Communities.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Texts, Statistics, and Deception: On Our Investigative Method
Chapter 2 A Monkey, a Book, and Facebook, or How to Catch a Story in the
Act
Chapter 3 Does It Matter If It Is True? On Slaughterhouses, Fiction, and
Non-Fiction
Chapter 4 Does It Matter How It Is Told? On Species, Stylistics, and Voices
Chapter 5 Does It Matter Who It Is About? On Chimpanzees, Lizards, and
Other Main Characters
Chapter 6 How Does It Work? From Readerly Pleasure to Animal Cruelty
Chapter 7 How Long Will It Work? A Short Chapter on Attitudinal Impact Over
Time
Conclusions, Speculations, and Prospects
Appendices
Index