Creaturely poetics : animality and vulnerability in literature and film
by
 
Pick, Anat.

Title
: 
Creaturely poetics : animality and vulnerability in literature and film

Author
: 
Pick, Anat.

ISBN
: 
9780231147866
 
9780231147873

Personal Author
: 
Pick, Anat.

Publication Information
: 
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

Physical Description
: 
x, 249 p. ; 22 cm.

General Note
: 
Formerly CIP.

Contents
: 
Contents: Introduction : creaturely bodies -- The inhumanity of literature. Humanity unraveled, humanity regained : the Holocaust and the discourse of species -- Neanderthal poetics in William Golding's The inheritors -- The indignities of species in Marie Darrieussecq's Pig tales -- The inhumanity of film. Cine-zoos -- Scientific surrealism in the films of Georges Franju and Frederick Wiseman -- Werner Herzog's creaturely poetics -- Conclusion : animal saintliness.

Subject Term
: 
Animals in literature.
 
Human-animal relationships in literature.
 
Animals in motion pictures.
 
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
 
Philosophical anthropology.


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