In the company of wolves (eBook, ePUB)

Werewolves, wolves and wild children
Redaktion: George, Sam; Hughes, Bill

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Produktbeschreibung

In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in different media and genres. We begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consider eighteenth-century debates about wild children - often thought to have been raised by wolves and other animals - and their role in key questions about the origins of language and society. The collection continues with essays on werewolves and other shapeshifters as depicted in folk tales, literature, film and TV, concluding with the transition from animal to human in contemporary art, poetry and fashion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526129055
• Artikelnr.: 58644277

Autorenporträt

Sam George is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire Bill Hughes is Co-convenor of the Open Graves, Open Minds Project

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Sam George Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to
paranormal romance - Sam George and Bill Hughes Part I : C ultural images
of the wolf, the werewolf and the wolf-child 1 Wolves and lies: a writer's
perspective -Marcus Sedgwick 2 'Man is a wolf to man': wolf behaviour
becoming wolfish nature - Garry Marvin 3 When wolves cry: wolf-children,
storytelling and the state of nature - Sam George 4 'Children of the night.
What music they make!': the sound of the cinematic werewolf - Stacey Abbott
Part II: Innocence and experience: brute creation, wild beast or child of
nature 5 Wild sanctuary: running into the forest in Russian fairy tales -
Shannon Scott 6 'No more than a brute or a wild beast': Wagner the Werewolf
, Sweeney Todd, and the limits of human responsibility - Joseph Crawford 7
The inner beast: scientific experimentation in George MacDonald's 'The
History of Photogen and Nycteris' - Rebecca Langworthy 8 Werewolves and
white trash: brutishness, discrimination and the lower-class wolfman from
The Wolf Man to True Blood - Victoria Amador Part III: Re-inventing the
wolf: intertextual and metafictional manifestations 9 'The price of flesh
is love': commodification, corporeality, and paranormal romance in Angela
Carter's beast tales - Bill Hughes 10 Growing pains of the teenage
werewolf: Young Adult literature and the metaphorical wolf - Kaja Franck 11
'I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself': the metafictional meanings of
lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who - Ivan Phillips Part IV: Animal
selves: becoming wolf 12 A running wolf and other grey animals: the various
shapes of Marcus Coates -Sarah Wade 13 'Stinking of me': transformations
and animal selves in contemporary women's poetry - Polly Atkin 14 Wearing
the wolf: fur, fashion and species transvestism - Catherine Spooner
Bibliography Index