Titlebook: Representing the Modern Animal in Culture; Jeanne Dubino,Ziba Rashidian,Andrew Smyth Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature Am

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Introductionation, the rate of this withdrawal is dramatically intensifying: we are living in an era marked by the worlds sixth mass extinction, comparable to the last one that wiped out the dinosaurs (Gibbons). As Elizabeth Kolbert says, “We are the asteroid now” (Kunzig).

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Introduction. Animals suffused human consciousness. Laurie Shannon calls the Early Modern era a “.” one, characterized by a “pervasive cognizance” of animals (472). Modernity, however, is marked by the increasing disappearance of animals.. With the Enlightenment and with industrialization, it seemed as if anima

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Old Maedhe, Dagda, and the Sidhe: Maud Gonne’s Menageriethat she has eluded the poets and artists who have tried to capture her. Human, superhuman, nonhuman, Gonne is the shape-shifter whose transformations have mystified the poet: “who can tell / Which of her forms has shown her substance right?” In “A Bronze Head,” Yeats locates the unrepresentable in

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Pets in Memoirein. During my mourning, I found myself able to analyze my sadness in light of Stein’s simple idea: suddenly, my little cat was no longer there to know me, and for that reason I felt myself lost. In losing her I had lost some small confirmation of my self.

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Darwin’s Ants: Evolutionary Theory and the Anthropomorphic Fallacyty of the razor-fish, who submits to be salted in his hole, rather than expose himself to be caught, after finding the enemy is lying in wait for him” (Lewes 365). Lewes’s empiricist convictions were prickled; here was the late Edward Forbes, FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society), a respected zoological

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The Fable, the Moral, and the Animal: Reconsidering the Fable in Animal Studies with Marianne Moore’im about moral conduct. But ever since Aesop, the fable has been understood more specifically as a brief account of animal life, presumed to be fictional, which serves as an example that teaches about the human social order. There is one other key defining aspect of the fable: it is the literary gen