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Introduction to the volume‚ in which we first provide an outline of our conception of “zoopoetics” as both a theory and a method‚ before giving an overview of the individual contributions to the volume.
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The editors would like to thank all the contributors for their hard work and everyone at Palgrave who helped us bring this to fruition. Special thanks to Marcel Beyer for agreeing to be part of this volume. Thanks also to Niels Springveld for carefully proofreading all the chapters and for compiling the index, and to Susanne Knittel for her help and support.
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Driscoll, K., Hoffmann, E. (2018). Introduction: What Is Zoopoetics?. In: Driscoll, K., Hoffmann, E. (eds) What Is Zoopoetics?. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64416-5_1
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