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Exploring The Non-Human And Religion In Nineteenth-Century Writings - Colonial Idols In British Curation And Culture

by Shuhita Bhattacharjee

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 Exploring the Non-Human and Religion in 19th Century Writings: Colonial Idols in British Curation and Culture examines the curatorial and literary representations of colonial idols in British writings of the nineteenth century as they emerged in the imperial heartland as alien art, invasive commodities, and vessels of affect.
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Disturbing Nature In Narrative Literature

by Philip Armstrong

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 Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature identifies and analyses literary encounters with unexpected, disconcerting, and unsettling aspects of the natural world. It includes in-depth discussion of a wide range of literary texts from the British, American, and European literary traditions, and from the Classical period to today.
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Natural And Artificial Bodies In Early Modern England - Literature, Natural Philosophy, Objects

by Alvin Snider

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 It studies 17th century texts which distinctions between the natural and the artificial interfold. It examines how 4 writers theorized bodies and objects as characters in sometimes scenarios involving human entanglements in the phenomenal world. The chapters present readings of Herrick,Cavendish and Milton, a Restoration comedy.
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Human And The Machine In Literature And Culture - Cultures Of Automation

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 This book argues that thought experiments in literature demonstrate how fears and hopes around automation may have more basis in imagination than reality. The volume asks how these understandings of automation can help to understand our technological present, and our increasingly technologized future.
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Contemporary Visual Poetry - Women Writing The Posthuman

by Fiona Becket

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 This book includes conceptual printed works, poem-objects, texts for performance, and computational poetry that shape a posthumanist understanding which is â€œsituatedâ€. Part of the material turn, it fashions modes of complex embodiment in relation to the global crises of our moment: environmental, economic and ethical.
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Natural And Artificial Bodies In Early Modern England - Literature, Natural Philosophy, Objects

by Alvin Snider

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 It studies 17th century texts which distinctions between the natural and the artificial interfold. It examines how 4 writers theorized bodies and objects as characters in sometimes scenarios involving human entanglements in the phenomenal world. The chapters present readings of Herrick,Cavendish and Milton, a Restoration comedy.
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Disturbing Nature In Narrative Literature

by Philip Armstrong

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 Disturbing Nature in Narrative Literature identifies and analyses literary encounters with unexpected, disconcerting, and unsettling aspects of the natural world. It includes in-depth discussion of a wide range of literary texts from the British, American, and European literary traditions, and from the Classical period to today.
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Monarch And The (Non)-Human In Literature And Cinema - Western And Global Perspectives

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 From the cuneiform tablets of the city of Nineveh to the colored motion pictures of Hollywoodâ€™s silver screens and beyond, these chapters offer fresh perspectives on the emergence, development, and influence of the hybrid (human/non-human) monarch literary archetype in classical and modern works
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Mapping The Posthuman

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 An interdisciplinary archive of generative methods of writing, fabulation, and world-making, the contributors to this volume examine various aspects of a new style of living demanded by a more-than-human world.
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Futures Of The Human Subject - Technical Mediation, Foucault And Science Fiction

by Slawomir Koziol

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 Drawing on Foucault-inflected philosophy of technical mediation, Futures of the Human Subject analyzes several recent science fiction novels, examining their representations of the relation between people and specific technologies and of the way in which this relation affects human subjectivity.
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Entangled Fictions - Nonhuman Animals In An Indian World

by Suvadip Sinha

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 Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds.
Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies In Twenty-First Century Us Fiction

by Carmen Laguarta-Bueno

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 This work approaches, from dual perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced perspective of critical posthumanism, 21st century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition
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Birds And Other Creatures In Renaissance Literature - Shakespeare, Descartes, And Animal Studies

by Rebecca Ann Bach

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 This book explores how humans in the Renaissance considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature and natural history display an unequal creaturely world: all creatures were categorized hierarchically, yet post-Cartesian readings have misunderstood Renaissance hierarchical creaturely relati
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Plants In Contemporary Poetry - Ecocriticism And The Botanical Imagination

by John Ryan

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 This book studies representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry, addressing the relationship between poetic language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness, and intelligence of vegetal life. It forwards an interdisciplinary model of â€˜botanical criticismâ€™ in examining the role of plants in cont
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Plants In Children'S And Young Adult Literature

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 This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in childrenâ€™s and YA literatures internationally, from the perspective of the rapidly expanding field of cultural plant studies.
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Landscapes Of W. H. Auden'S Interwar Poetry - Roots And Routes

by Ladislav Vit

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 This is the first book-length study foregrounding Audenâ€™s sense of place as a means for enhancing our grasp of this crucial twentieth-century poet.
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Animal Remains

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 To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, photographic and film history, and contemporary art practice to offer the first synoptic account of animal remains.
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Ethos Of Digital Environments - Technology, Literary Theory And Philosophy

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 This volume explores the ethos of digital environments, asking how we can orient ourselves in them and inviting us to renewed moral reflection in the face of dilemmas they entail.
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Transhumanism And Posthumanism In Twenty-First Century Narrative

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 This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.
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Bees In Early Modern Transatlantic Literature - Sovereign Colony

by Nicole A. Jacobs

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 This book examines bees in the early modern English and American literary and cultural traditions, exploring the works of Shakespeare, Pastorius, Hopi and Wyandotte cultures, Milton, and Pulter. It argues that the hive plays a central role in shaping conflicts over labor and sovereignty in the early transatlantic world.
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Outside The Anthropological Machine - Crossing The Human-Animal Divide And Other Exit Strategies

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 This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animalsâ€™ lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animalsâ€™ perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to "unlearn" no more and no less than our speciesâ€™ arrogance.
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Writing The Land, Writing Humanity - The Maya Literary Renaissance

by Charles M. Pigott

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 The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts, the book synthesizes core Maya concepts with diverse theories to reveal how literature constantly emerges from wider creative patterns in nature.
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Novel Creatures - Animal Life And The New Millennium

by Hilary Thompson

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 Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern fiction and argues that the novels of this time reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human and animal experience, thus moving beyond work that primarily attends to distinctions between the human and the animal. Carrying forward this recent scholarship, Novel Creatures argues that creatureliness has been an intensely millennial preoccupation, but in two contrasting forms—one leading up to the turn of the century, the other after the tragic events of 9/11.
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Ghost, Android, Animal - Trauma And Literature Beyond The Human

by Tony M. Vinci

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 Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought, revealing how depictions of non-human agents invite readers to cross cultural thresholds and interact with the "impossible" pain of others.
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