Animal fables after Darwin : literature, speciesism, and metaphor /
"The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Uplifting Animals; Chapter 1 Looking Up, Looking Down: Orientations of the Human; ''Godlike Erect''; ''Going the Whole Orang'': The Post-Darwinian Fable; The Darwinian Grotesque; Franz Kafka, Fabulist; The Aesopian Grotesque; Chapter 2 The Grotesque Mouth; ''Might Sovereignty Be Devouring?''; Aesop's Symposium of Animal Tongues; On Eating God: The Theological Fables of T.F. Powys; Chapter 3 ''The Highest Civilisation among Ants'': Stevenson and the Fable.
- Ant TheologyFrog Perspective; Ape Perspective; Chapter 4 ''An Animal among the Animals'': Wells and the Thought of the Future; The Discovery of the Future; Animalizing the Present; The Island of Doctor Moreau; A Topological Fable; Chapter 5 Animal Bachelors and Animal Brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett; Perforating the Human; Animal Masquerades; ''Animals Are Closer to Us Than Human Beings''; Chapter 6 Scapegoats and Scapegraces: Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Kafka and Coetzee; Scapegoat: The Narrative Animal; What Is It Like to Be a Scapegoat? Elizabeth Costello and Red Peter.
- Difficult Comparisons''Like a Dog ... Like a Lamb'': Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Disgrace; From Scapegoat to Scapegrace; Coda: ''Diogenes of the Zoo''; References; Index.
