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Stalking the Subject
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

Stalking the Subject

Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a "human" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to ...

Choreographies of the Living
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Choreographies of the Living

Nude vibrations: Isadora Duncan's creatural aesthetic -- Creative incantations and involutions in D.H. Lawrence -- Woolf's floating monkeys and whirling women -- Strange prosthetics: Rachel Rosenthal's rats and rings -- Uncaging Cunningham's animals

Human-Animal Studies: Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 40

Human-Animal Studies: Literature

One in the series of Human-Animal Studies ebooks produced as a result of the (printed) publication of the definitive HAS handbook, Teaching the Animal: Human–Animal Studies across the Disciplines. This chapter focuses on literature, includes two course syllabi, and has a full resources section covering all disciplines. Includes chapter "Animal Writes" by Carrie Rohman.

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World

Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, exploring Virginia Woolf’s complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic.

The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism

Analyses key texts by D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan.

Teaching the Animal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 465

Teaching the Animal

Split into three sections, Teaching the Animal provides in-depth analysis of the nature of the discipline, the resources available, expectations of students and faculty, and a number of sample curricula in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences.

Eco-Modernism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Eco-Modernism

In drawing together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from across the UK and America, Eco-Modernism offers a diverse range of environmental and ecological interpretations of modernist texts and illustrates that ecocriticism can offer fresh and provocative ways of understanding literary modernism.

D. H. Lawrence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

D. H. Lawrence

In recent decades, critical and theoretical debate in the field of culture and literature has called into question many literary categories, has re-discussed the literary canon, and has totally renovated critical approaches in the wake of major changes in western society such as the irruption of new cultural identities, the disruption of the well-established Euro-centric conception, and the need to establish new world visions. D. H. Lawrence has been a focus for critical debate since his early publications in the first decades of the 20th century. The force of his thought, his courageous challenge against the most important values of western industrial society, his rejection of England and i...

Modernist Waterscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Modernist Waterscapes

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics. The various forms, movements, and properties of water inspired Woolf’s writing of reality, time, and bodies and offered her an apt medium to reflect on the possibilities as well as on the exhaustion of her art. As a deeply intertextual writer, Woolf recognised how profoundly water has shaped human imagination and the landscape of the literary past. In line with recent ecocritical and ecofeminist assessments of her works, this book also shows Woolf’s attraction to water as part of an indifferent nature that exists prior to and beyond the symbolic. Through close analyses that span the whole of Woolf’s oeuvre, and that centre on the metaphorical and the material voices of water in her works, Modernist Waterscapes offers a fresh perspective on a writing that is as versatile as the element from which it draws. The monograph addresses postgraduate students and scholars working in modernist studies and Woolf studies in particular.

Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace

This volume asks how Woolf conceptualized peace by exploring various experimental forms she created in response to violence and crisis. Across fifteen chapters written by an international array of scholars, this book draws out theoretical dimensions of Woolf’s aesthetics and deepens our understanding of her writing about war, ethics, feminism and European culture.