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Reading Literary Animals e-bog

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Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which t...
E-bog 329,95 DKK
Forfattere Spencer, Jane (redaktør)
Forlag Routledge
Udgivet 29 august 2019
Længde 290 sider
Genrer Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781351603911
Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates the value of distinctively literary animal studies.