Animal Poetics and Literary Thinking

This book explores and reorients our approach to animal thinking through the intersection between literary fiction and continental philosophy, and seeks to understand animality as neither entity nor essence, but as a new "impossibility."

List of contents

Foreword Richard Kerridge
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Animal Poetics
Chapter 1: Animal Poetics and Coetzeean Ethics
Chapter 2: Animal poetics and Kafkan Stupidity
Chapter 3: Animal Poetics and Frankensteinic Monstrosity
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Ratul Nandi

Product details

• Authors: Ratul Nandi, Ratul Nandi
• Assisted by: Kerridge Richard (Foreword), Richard Kerridge (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2025
• EAN: 9781666963953
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-395-3
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, natural history, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literature: history & criticism, Topics in philosophy, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, Environmentalist thought and ideology, PHILOSOPHY / Environmental, PHILOSOPHY / Nature