| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 494 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. I. Wolf Book -- 1. Real, the Corporeal, and the Ghost Wolf -- 2. Basic Corporeality: Wolf Biologists and Nonfiction -- 3. Bioregional and Geopolitical Wolf Book -- 4. Druid Peak -- 5. Intermediate Corporeality: The Average Wolf -- 6. Advanced Corporeality: Wolf Sign -- pt. II. Ghost Wolf: A Mythic Historiography -- 7. Sea Wolf (In Which a Wolf Crosses the Water) -- 8. Orion's Dogs (In Which a Wolf Crosses the Sky) -- 9. Terra Nova (In Which the Wolf Discovers North America) -- 10. Three Dreams (In Which Some Wolves Cross the Mind) -- pt. III. Werewolf, Wolf-Child, She-Wolf: Race, Class, and Gender Reconsidered -- 11. Loophole: Lycanthropy, Shape-Shifting, and the Werewolf Race -- 12. Wolf Channel: Ritual Masks as Visual Literature -- 13. Raised by Wolves -- 14. Twins and the Timber Wolves: A Case Study -- 15. Fall of the Wild: Jack London's Dog Stories -- 16. Big North Draw -- 17. She-Wolves: Wildness, Domesticity, and the Woman Warrior -- pt. IV. Big Sky Wolf -- 18. Skull That Wakes the Spirits: Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing -- Lupus Mundi |
| Summary |
"Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf's importance as a figure in literature from the perspectives of both the animal's physical reality and the ways writers imagine and portray it."--Inside jacket |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [439]-476) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Animals in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Myth in literature.
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Wolves in literature.
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| Author |
Szawiola, Kathleen, designer
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| LC no. |
2008050299 |
| ISBN |
087417774X |
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