Research Catalog

Title

Canis modernis : human/dog coevolution in modernist literature / Karalyn Kendall-Morwick.

Author

Kendall-Morwick, Karalyn

Publication

• University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

viii, 206 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms"--

Series Statement

Animalibus: of animals and cultures

Uniform Title

Animalibus.

Subject

• Dogs in literature
• Human-animal relationships in literature
• Modernism (Literature)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index.

Contents

Introduction : modernism and the canine condition -- Canine origins : Jack London and Konrad Lorenz -- Mongrelizing form : Virginia Woolf's Flush -- The new dog : Albert Payson Terhune and J.R. Ackerley -- Dogging the subject : Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas -- Coda : modernism and literary canine studies.

Call Number

JFE 21-2334

ISBN

• 9780271088020
• 0271088028

LCCN

2020039412

OCLC

1141159083

Author

Kendall-Morwick, Karalyn, author.

Title

Canis modernis : human/dog coevolution in modernist literature / Karalyn Kendall-Morwick.

Publisher

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Animalibus: of animals and cultures

Animalibus.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2334