What Is Zoopoetics?: Texts, Bodies, Entanglement

by Kári Driscoll

Book Overview

Moves away from traditional literary criticism, which has been marked by the tendency to disregard the ubiquitous animal presence in literary texts, or shown determination to read animals simply as metaphors and symbols for something else

Explores zoopoetics both as an object of study (the texts themselves) and as a method for studying literature, which is therefore transferable to other contexts

Focuses primarily on non-Anglophone literature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319644157
• ISBN13: 9783319644158
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"