Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes - Humans and Other Animals in the Modern Literary Imagination

Klappentext Brown shows how the literary works of the 18th century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical! ontological! and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience! difference! hierarchy! intimacy! diversity! and transcendence. Zusammenfassung Brown shows how the literary works of the 18th century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical, ontological, and metaphysical questions into the realm of everyday experience, difference, hierarchy, intimacy, diversity, and transcendence.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Brown, Laura S. Brown
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.08.2010
• EAN: 9780801448287
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4828-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies