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Beyond the Human-Animal Divide

Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Dominik Ohrem

    1. School of History, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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  2. Roman Bartosch

    1. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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  • Argues for the importance of the creaturely in navigating the ethical complexities of the Anthropocene
  • Explores creatural presences across disciplines, including historiography, ethnography, philosophical argument, film, and visual arts
  • Unites international perspectives from up-and-coming to established scholars

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Animating Creaturely Life: Ontology and Ethics Beyond Anthropocentrism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Animating Creaturely Life

      • Dominik Ohrem
      Pages 3-19

    3. Earth Ethics and Creaturely Cohabitation

      • Kelly Oliver
      Pages 21-41

    4. An Address from Elsewhere: Vulnerability, Relationality, and Conceptions of Creaturely Embodiment

      • Dominik Ohrem
      Pages 43-75

    5. “Creature Comforts”: Crafting a Common Language Across the Species Divide

      • Randy Malamud
      Pages 77-94

    6. Cuts: The Rhythms of “Healing-with” Companion Animals

      • Elizabeth Pattinson
      Pages 95-112

    7. A Dog’s Death: Art as a Work of Mourning

      • Jessica Ullrich
      Pages 113-139

    8. Playing like a Loser

      • Tom Tyler
      Pages 141-149

  3. Storying Creaturely Life: Writing/Reading Animality and Human–Animal Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Storying Creaturely Life

      • Roman Bartosch
      Pages 153-165

    3. The Collaborative Craft of Creaturely Writing

      • Alex Lockwood
      Pages 167-187

    4. Animals as Signifiers: Re-Reading Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things as a Genealogical Working Tool for Historical Human–Animal Studies

      • Mieke Roscher
      Pages 189-214

    5. Reading Seeing: Literary Form, Affect, and the Creaturely Potential of Focalization

      • Roman Bartosch
      Pages 215-238

    6. Creaturely Apotheosis: Posthumanist Vulnerability in Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja

      • Peter J. Meedom
      Pages 239-263

    7. “The Impulse Towards Silence”: Creaturely Expressivity in Beckett and Coetzee

      • Joseph Anderton
      Pages 265-282

    8. Fearful Symmetries: Pirandello’s Tiger and the Resistance to Metaphor

      • Kári Driscoll
      Pages 283-305

  4. Afterword

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 307-307
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    2. Thinking about Talking about Writing about … “Animals”

      • Jane Desmond
      Pages 309-315

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 317-325
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About this book

This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world. The text explores written work such as Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, video media such as the film "Creature Comforts" and the video game Into the Dead, and photography. With chapters written by an international group of philosophers, literary and cultural studies scholars, historians and others, the volume brings together established experts and forward-thinking early career scholars to provide an interdisciplinary engagement with ways of thinking and writing the creaturely to establish a postanthropocentric sense of human-animal relationality.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of History, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Dominik Ohrem

  • Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Roman Bartosch

About the editors

Dominik Ohrem is Lecturer in the  Anglo-American Department of the School of History at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Roman Bartosch is  Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cologne, Germany.

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