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Animal rights and the politics of literary representation / John Simons.
- Title
- Animal rights and the politics of literary representation / John Simons.
- Author
- Simons, John, 1955-
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
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| Text | Request in advance | PN56.A64 S63 2002 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 218 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book addresses the question of animal rights in the context of literary criticism. Working from a committed position it asks what literary studies would look like if animal rights were taken seriously. It offers critical surveys of the main themes in the history of animal rights and some of the more important contemporary positions together with readings of a wide range of literary texts from classical antiquity through to the present day.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-215) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: What is an Animal? -- 2. The Animal in Some Contemporary Thought: A Survey -- 3. Animal Rights in History: A Survey -- 4. A Chapter of Vulgar Errors -- 5. The Animal as Symbol -- 6. Anthropomorphism: The Non-Human as Human -- 7. Transformation: The Human as Non-Human and Vice Versa -- 8. Towards a Conclusion and a Way Forward.
- ISBN
- 0333745140 (cloth)
- LCCN
- ^^2001036185
- OCLC
- 47101056
- SCSB-12545755
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library