Canis Modernis - Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist Literature

Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms.

About the author

Karalyn Kendall-Morwick is Associate Professor of English at Washburn University.

Summary

Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms.

Product details

• Authors: Karalyn Kendall-Morwick, Karalyn (Associate Professor Kendall-Morwick
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2022
• EAN: 9780271088037
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08803-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Animalibus
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general