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Author: Birgit Spengler Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839445663 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 341
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The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.
Author: Birgit Spengler Publisher: transcript Verlag ISBN: 3839445663 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.
Author: Patrick Whitmarsh Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 1503635554 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 270
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Mid-twentieth-century developments in science and technology produced new understandings and images of the planet that circulated the globe, giving rise to a modern ecological consciousness; but they also contributed to accelerating crises in the global environment, including climate change, pollution, and waste. In this new work, Patrick Whitmarsh analyzes postwar narrative fictions that describe, depict, or express the earth from above (the aerial) and below (the subterranean), revealing the ways that literature has engaged this history of vertical science and linked it to increasing environmental precarity, up to and including the extinction of humankind. Whitmarsh examines works by writers such as Don DeLillo, Karen Tei Yamashita, Reza Negarestani, and Colson Whitehead alongside postwar scientific programs including the Space Race, atmospheric and underground nuclear testing, and geological expeditions such as Project Mohole (which attempted to drill to the earth's mantle). As Whitmarsh argues, by focusing readers' attention on the fragility of postwar life through a vertical lens, Anthropocene fiction highlights the interconnections between human behavior and planetary change. These fictions situate industrial history within the much longer narrative of geological time and reframe scientific progress as a story through which humankind writes itself out of existence.
Author: Sönke Kunkel Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 1805390856 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 318
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This book offers a critical reflection of the historical genesis, transformation, and problématique of “humanity” in the transatlantic world, with a particular eye on cultural representations. “Humanity,” the essays show, was consistently embedded in networks of actors and cultural practices, and its meanings have evolved in step with historical processes such as globalization, cultural imperialism, the transnationalization of activism, and the spread of racism and nationalism. Visions of Humanity applies a historical lens on objects, sounds, and actors to provide a more nuanced understanding of the historical tensions and struggles involved in constructing, invoking, and instrumentalizing the “we” of humanity.
Author: Karen Kilcup Publisher: Evening Street Press ISBN: 1937347796 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 44
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In this beautifully crafted collection of poems, Karen Kilcup writes about how isolation due to covid brought nature to our doors, examining human kindness and cruelty as it encroaches. In “Squunck” the skunk observes us as well. “I live / in open air, uncontained / by the doors like coffin lids / that suffocate you inside /your fancy boxes.” Kilcup also laments isolation. In “On Not Being Touched” she writes, “I envy the river rocks / for the water curling over / their backs.” In “Belgian Mare and Foal” Kilcup celebrates a birth: “A flurry of legs / the pour of a creamy tail, / the flash of a russet back. / The mare observes, and nods.” I am enamored of Karen Kilcup’s work and am honored to have had the chance to publish two of the poems from this collection. —Lee (Lori) Desrosiers, author of The Philosopher’s Daughter, Sometimes I Hear the Clock Speak, and Keeping Planes in the Air, and editor of Naugatuck River Review and Wordpeace All too often we humans are guilty of a “habit / of not seeing what’s there,” as Karen Kilcup claims in her poem “The Sixth Cat.” But in these poems, she pays attention. Red Appetite is filled with close looks at the myriad of creatures that share our planet, from the tiny water striders that “cannot see / the quick shadow / that glides beneath / the river’s lucent skin, / the gulf that lies / below” to the bobcat, the “graceful spotted ghost,” that “leaves behind a chill that never / eases.” From a deep observation of the small lives we often glimpse in our wild and more-domesticated spaces, these poems deftly straddle a first-time gardener’s fierce frustration with the wild pillagers that seek the same bitter greens in spring as we do, and the often humorous empathy for those small lives we too often overlook. —Katherine Solomon, author of Tempting Fate Red Appetite is a taxonomy of the joy and quirks of animals that live around us, haunted all the while by death and the COVID lockdown. In these tight, lyrical poems, mortality hunts the speaker like the bobcat that stalks the barnyard and the woodchuck that undermines the garden. These poems echo Maxine Kumin’s ethical introspection while others hint at the starkness of Robinson Jeffers’ animal poems. The music here allows the reader a taste of the sublime in the midst of a world that is always falling and rising: The neighbor’s ornamental cherry tree / sags with blooms. Too soon, / they’ll wash the dark ground / with pink, soft underfoot, as if / someone holding her breath / exhaled. Red Appetite is a focused meditation on how we are reflected in these animals, both domesticated like the barnyard cat or mare, and more wild like the possum, junco, and bobcat. Kilcup’s collection is a nuanced read that leads one to rejoice in spring and reflect that new life is due only to the coldness brought by winter. —Gregory Byrd, author of The Name for the God Who Speaks, winner of the 2018 Robert Phillips Prize
Author: J L Arnold Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1329463633 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 152
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This GM's Campaign Guide & Bestiary contains essential tools for the game master, from reference tables to monsters. The game master's tools provide game mechanics quick reference, optional rules applications, and random generation of game elements such as weather, moon phase, and storm affects for adventures on paper or on the fly. The various NPC's, locations, and monsters are fully specked out in easy to read table format for instant game use. Many new possibilities for player characters, both species and vocation, are added and fully annotated in the bestiary section for easy use in character creation.
Author: Larry Swain Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 1501512080 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 302
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Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students than ever before wrestle with Grendel in the darkness of Heorot or venture into the dragon’s barrow for gold and glory. This increase of attention and interest in the Old English epic has led to a myriad of new and varying translations of the poem published every year, the production of several mainstream film and television adaptations, and many graphic novel versions. More and more teachers in all sorts of classrooms, with varying degrees of familiarity and training are called upon to bring this ancient poem before their students. This practical guide to teaching Beowulf in the twenty-first century combines scholarly research with pedagogical technique, imparting a picture of how the poem can be taught in contemporary American institutions.
Author: Richard E. Strassberg Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520922786 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 338
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A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains descriptions of hundreds of fantastic denizens of mountains, rivers, islands, and seas, along with minerals, flora, and medicine. The text also represents a wide range of beliefs held by the ancient Chinese. Richard Strassberg brings the Guideways to life for modern readers by weaving together translations from the work itself with information from other texts and recent archaeological finds to create a lavishly illustrated guide to the imaginative world of early China. Unlike the bestiaries of the late medieval period in Europe, the Guideways was not interpreted allegorically; the strange creatures described in it were regarded as actual entities found throughout the landscape. The work was originally used as a sacred geography, as a guidebook for travelers, and as a book of omens. Today, it is regarded as the richest repository of ancient Chinese mythology and shamanistic wisdom. The Guideways may have been illustrated from the start, but the earliest surviving illustrations are woodblock engravings from a rare 1597 edition. Seventy-six of those plates are reproduced here for the first time, and they provide a fine example of the Chinese engraver's art during the late Ming dynasty. This beautiful volume, compiled by a well-known specialist in the field, provides a fascinating window on the thoughts and beliefs of an ancient people, and will delight specialists and general readers alike.
Author: Ilene Winn-Lederer Publisher: ISBN: 9780692786574 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 42
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A visual bestiary (collected illustrations of real and imaginary animals) organized within the framework of an A-Z alliterative alphabet with a preface and artist's notes.
Author: Babette Bärbel Tischleder Publisher: Campus Verlag ISBN: 359350006X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 295
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Whether in the street or the microcosm of the home, the life of things conjoins human subjects and inanimate objects. This material culture has long played a vital role in the American literary imagination, yet scholars in literary and cultural studies have only recently (re)discovered the object world as a subject of critical inquiry. Engaging a great range of American literature--from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Edith Wharton to Vladimir Nabokov and Jonathan Franzen--The Literary Life of Things illuminates scenes of animation that disclose the aesthetic, affective, and ethical dimensions of our entanglement with the material world.
Author: Sarah Kay Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022643673X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 244
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Sarah Kay s interests in this book are, first, to examine how medieval bestiaries depict and challenge the boundary between humans and other animals; and second, to register the effects on readers of bestiaries by the simple fact that parchment, the writing support of virtually all medieval texts, is a refined form of animal skin. Surveying the most important works created from the ninth through the thirteenth centuries, Kay connects nature to behavior to Christian doctrine or moral teaching across a range of texts. As Kay shows, medieval thought (like today) was fraught with competing theories about human exceptionalism within creation. Given that medieval bestiaries involve the inscription of texts about and images of animals onto animal hides, these texts, she argues, invite readers to reflect on the inherent fragility of bodies, both human and animal, and the difficulty of distinguishing between skin as a site of mere inscription and skin as a containing envelope for sentient life. It has been more than fifty years since the last major consideration of medieval Latin and French bestiaries was published. Kay brings us up to date in the archive, and contributes to current discussions among animal studies theorists, manuscript studies scholars, historians of the book, and medievalists of many stripes."
Author: Birgit Spengler
Author: Birgit Spengler
Author: Patrick Whitmarsh
Author: Sönke Kunkel
Author: Karen Kilcup
Author: J L Arnold
Author: Larry Swain
Author: Richard E. Strassberg
Author: Ilene Winn-Lederer
Author: Babette Bärbel Tischleder
Author: Sarah Kay