Animal Visions: Posthumanist Dream Writing

by Susan Mary Pyke

Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Bront?'s Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human species over other species. Two feminist and post-Freudian responses, Kathy Acker's poem "Obsession" (1992) and Anne Carson's "The Glass Essay" (1997) most strongly extend...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030038769
• ISBN13: 9783030038762
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"