Metaphor, Animals, Modernism - Specters of Literarity

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 01: INTRODUCTION. METAPHOR, LITERARITY, AND THE SUBSTITUTIONAL FALLACY.- Chapter 02: ANIMATING METAPHOR.- Chapter 03: TOUCHING FIGURES IN D.H. LAWRENCE’S THE RAINBOW.- Chapter 04: WRITING VISIONS IN H.D.’S ASPHODEL.- Chapter 05: SINGING THE INTERVALS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF’S THE WAVES.- Chapter 06: TAILING SPECTERS: CONCLUDING REMARKS.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Maria Trejling is Researcher at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Zusammenfassung

This book explores what animal metaphors bring into literature, addressing persistent criticism against figurativity in general as well as metaphor within the field of literary animal studies. It does so through a theorization of metaphor and through careful analyses of three modernist works that abound with animals who are easily overlooked, but whose figurative significations prove essential to their texts once they are studied. The study is informed by a transdisciplinary perspective, primarily influenced by animal studies, deconstruction, and tropology, while also drawing upon biology and zoology.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Maria Trejling
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Sprache: Englisch, Deutsch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 13.05.2026
• EAN: 9783032131591
• ISBN: 978-3-032-13159-1
• Illustration: Approx. 225 p.
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Literaturtheorie, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Metaphor, Modernism, Literary theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Criticism, Deconstruction, Literature and Animal Studies, Literary Metaphor, Zoopoetics, Animal Metaphor