Animals and Their People: Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38621-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Human-Animal Studies

Animals and Their People: Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies, edited by Anna Barcz and Dorota Lagodzka, provides a zoocentric insight into philosophical, artistic, and literary problems in Western, Anglo-American, and Central-Eastern European context. The contributors go beyond treating humans as the sole object of research and comprehension, and focus primarily on non-human animals. This book results from intellectual exchange between Polish and foreign researchers and highlights cultural perspective as an exciting language of animal representation. Animals and Their People aims to bridge the gap between Anglo-American and Central European human-animal studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barcz, Anna

Lagodzka, Dorota

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gesellschaft & Tiere
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface, Anna Barcz and Dorota Lagodzka

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Correlation in Arts: Theory and Practice of Art towards Nonhuman Animals

Between Philology and Biology: Animal Music and Its Epistemological and Methodological Framework, Martin Ullrich

Human and Animal Portraits, or the Issue of Similarity after Darwin, Anna Barcz

Animal Art Exhibitions in Poland from the late 1990s to the Present Day, Dorota Lagodzka

Part 2: Canine as a Framework

Contact Zones—Where Dogs and Humans Meet: Dog-Human-Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art, Jessica Ullrich

Renaissance Humanists and Their Dogs, Piotr Urbanski

My Dog and Literary “Translation” Criticism (The Subjectivity of the Dog in Flush by Virginia Woolf and Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka), Oksana Weretiuk

“We Stretch Our Limits and Change Our Lives”: Interspecies Communication in Contemporary American Pet Memoirs, Malgorzata Rutkowska

Part 3: Nonhuman Animals in the Ecriture Feminine

Bodily Encounters with the Animal: The Dog and His/Her Human—Who are They?, Monika Rogowska-Stangret

Thalia Field’s Posthumanist “Ecology of Questions” in Bird Lovers, Backyard, Malgorzata Myk

From Species (Co-)Existence to Species (Co-)Evolution: Neo-Darwinian Concepts in the Literary Works of Anna Swirszczynska and Anna Nasilowska, Anna Filipowicz

Part 4: Human and Nonhuman Animal Postmodernity

Postmodern Breed: The Crisis of Breed as a Master Narrative of the Dog World, Justyna Wlodarczyk

People Like Animals? The Significance of Animal Threads in the Post-Apocalyptic World in The Last of Us, Bartlomiej Szleszynski

Rewilding and Moral Conflicts: Ethics in the Aftermath of Successful Environmental Protection, Mateusz Tokarski

Part 5: Philosophy in Quest for Nonhuman Animals

Political Nonhuman Animal Voices: Rethinking Language and Politics with Nonhuman Animals, Eva Meijer

New Concept of Subjectivity in Schopenhauer’s Philosophy as a Basis of Morality for Human and Nonhuman Animals, Amadeusz Just

Animal Language and Human DiscourseKrystian Marcin Gradz

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Barcz, Ph.D., is an independent researcher and the author of Ecorealism: From Ecocriticism to Zoocriticism in Polish Literature (Katowice 2016), Animal Narratives and Culture: Vulnerable Realism (Newcastle upon Tyne 2017), and many research articles on the environment and culture.

Dorota Lagodzka is an art historian, lecturer, art exhibitions curator, and coordinator of the Anthropozoology Studies program at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales,” at the University of Warsaw. She is also the recipient of two research grants from the National Science Centre Poland.