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What Is Zoopoetics?: Texts, Bodies, Entanglement (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

What Is Zoopoetics?: Texts, Bodies, Entanglement (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

Current price: $183.99
Publication Date: April 3rd, 2018
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9783319644158
Pages:
284
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Description

Moves away from traditional literary criticism, which has been marked by the tendency to disregard the ubiquitous animal presence in literary texts, or shown determination to read animals simply as metaphors and symbols for something else

Explores zoopoetics both as an object of study (the texts themselves) and as a method for studying literature, which is therefore transferable to other contexts

Focuses primarily on non-Anglophone literature, broadening the scope and reach of the work, and is the first comprehensive, comparative, transnational exploration and definition of zoopoetics

About the Author

Kári Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He holds a PhD (2014) in German Language and Literature from Columbia University. He has published on zoopoetics in the works of Franz Kafka, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Luigi Pirandello. He is the co-editor of Book Presence in a Digital Age (2017), and, with Susanne C. Knittel, of Memory after Humanism, a special issue of Parallax, 22, no. 4 (2017). He is also an award-winning translator. Eva Hoffmann is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of German Studies and Gender Studies at Whitman College, WA, USA. She received her PhD at the University of Oregon at the Department of German and Scandinavian in 2017, and has a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of Oregon. She has publishedarticles on Franz Kafka, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Orhan Pamuk. She also translated Elsa Asenijeff's collection of short stories, Innocence, into English.