What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity【電子書籍】[ Philip Armstrong ]

＜p＞＜em＞What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity＜/em＞ argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: ＜em＞Robinson Crusoe＜/em＞, ＜em＞Gulliver’s Travels＜/em＞, ＜em＞Frankenstein＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Moby-Dick＜/em＞. He then goes on to explore how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists, including H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Brigid Brophy, Bernard Malamud, Timothy Findley, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel and J.M. Coetzee.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity＜/em＞ also introduces readers to new developments in the study of human-animal relations. It does so by attending both to the significance of animals to humans, a．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る