An Eclectic Bestiary: Encounters in a More-than-Human World

Published by transcript Verlag 2019

An Eclectic Bestiary

Encounters in a More-than-Human World

Edited by: Birgit Spengler and Babette B. Tischleder

Volume 20 in the series Human-Animal Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839445662

Overview
Contents

About this book

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 / Editor information

Birgit Spengler is Professor of American Literature at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. She is the author of two books, Vision, Gender, and Power in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing, 1860-1900 (2008) and Literary Spinoffs: Rewriting the Classics - Re-Imagining the Community (2015). Her research focuses, among other things, on articulations of states of exception, bare life, and precarious being in contemporary American literature and other cultural media.
Babette B. Tischleder is Professor of North American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Göttingen. Her books include The Literary Life of Things: Case Studies in American Fiction (2014) and the coedited volume Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age (2015). Her research focuses, among other things, on the ways that critical and creative practices tackle present ecological troubles and our endangered futures.

Reviews

»Das ist ein Sammelband, der es in sich hat: Wahrscheinlich keine leichte Lektüre zum schnellen Überfliegen, aber dennoch sehr empfehlenswert.«
Ulrike Schwerdtner, http://tierbefreiungsarchiv.de, 8 (2020)

»Der Band besticht durch seine beeindruckende Bebilderung.«
Kochen ohne Knochen, 38/1 (2020)

Supplementary Materials

Leseprobe

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Introduction: Multispecies Chronotopes— Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human Babette B. Tischleder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Vegetal Life and Plant Poetics
Cleveland Select Judith Fetterley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Blood on the Kitchen Table Ulla Haselstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Flowers Kirsten Twelbeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Arboreal Encounters in Richard Powers’s The Overstory Birgit Spengler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Photo Series #1
The Lives of Trees Birgit Spengler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Sonic Bugs and Lyrical Beasts
Skunk Karen L. Kilcup Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
“The Citizenry of All Things Within One World”: Mary Oliver’s Poetic Explorations of Kinship Katja Sarkowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Strange Animals in Stylish Habitats: Marianne Moore’s Poetry Revisited Sabine Sielke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
The Beetles—Greatest Hits: The Rhythm ’n’ Sound of Insects Bernd Herzogenrath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Robert Lowell’s Hidden Cats: From Lord Weary’s Castle to Dolphin Astrid Franke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Zoological Encounters Susanne Scharf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Photo Series #2
Urban Animals Babette B. Tischleder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Political Ecologies in a Multispecies World
Notes on Thoreau’s Posthuman Democracy Johannes Voelz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Sacred Pact or Overkill? Human-Bison Relations in North American Mythologies Gesa Mackenthun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Hands: Transdifferent Encounters between Human and Nonhuman Animals Helmbrecht Breinig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Immanence is Bliss: The Ecological Imagination in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow Magda Majewska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
The Decline of Humanity in a Post-Animal World: The Animal Motif in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Yvonne Wiser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Art Work
Uninvited Collaborations with Nature Nina Katchadourian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
With and Beyond Nonhumans: Encounters, Empathy, Entanglements
“Strange Matings” and Cultural Encounters: Octavia Butler’s Fiction as “Companion Species” to Theory Maria Holmgren Troy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
More Than Human? Dracula’s Monstrosity Susanne Scholz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
“Revealing the Wellsprings of Power”: An Essay on the Social Function of Humor in “The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story” Christa Buschendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Empathy with the Animal Christine N. Brinckmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Martin Usborne’s Dogs: On Entangled Empathy in The Silence of Dogs in Cars and Where Hunting Dogs Rest Claudia Lillge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Paws of Courage: The Heroization of Dogs in Contemporary American Culture Simon Wendt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Biographical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 340
Keywords: Critical Plant Studies; Nonhuman Studies; Animal Studies; North American Ecocriticism; Photography; Posthumanism; Anthropocene; Cultural Studies; Animal History; Literary Studies; Animal; Human; Culture

eBook

Published: June 27, 2019
ISBN: 9783839445662