Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture

Book Overview

This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137603097
• ISBN13: 9781137603098
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"