| Description |
1 online resource (x, 208 pages) |
| Series |
Crosscurrents |
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Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)
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| Contents |
Introduction : ten statements about empathy and animal studies -- Fragile bodies, cross-species empathy and suspended allegories : 'it hurt, it was painful -- that's all there is to say' -- Anthropomorphism and the 'Ends of Man' in the Anthropocene : 'My chimp nature' -- Telling nonhuman stories : 'The secret contours of objects' -- The sexual politics of nature writing and lepidoptery : 'The siren song of entomology' -- Insect ethics and aesthetics : 'Their blood does not stain our hands' |
| Summary |
"Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be the primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects - beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Animals in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Fiction.
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Empathy in literature.
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fiction (general genre)
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Animals in literature
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Empathy in literature
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Fiction
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Human-animal relationships in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474439053 |
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1474439055 |
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1474439063 |
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9781474439060 |
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