Bøker i Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture-serien

This work approaches, from dual perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced perspective of critical posthumanism, 21st century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition

The emphasis of the inquiry in Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture.

Shakespeare's Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance invites new critical attention to non-human agents and influences, while aiming to revolutionize the interpretations of the uncanny, the supernatural, and the fantastic in Shakespeare's plays.

Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture is a collection of original essays that explore the representation of animals in children's literature. It focuses on the influence of animals to "civilize" children (and not the animals) in moral ethics and proper Victorian behavior, especially regarding human treatment of animals.

To make sense of the material afterlives of animals, this book draws together multispecies perspectives from literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, anthropology and ethnography, photographic and film history, and contemporary art practice to offer the first synoptic account of animal remains.

This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in children¿s and YA literatures internationally, from the perspective of the rapidly expanding field of cultural plant studies.

The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape.

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals¿ lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animals¿ perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to "unlearn" no more and no less than our species¿ arrogance.

This volume explores the ethos of digital environments, asking how we can orient ourselves in them and inviting us to renewed moral reflection in the face of dilemmas they entail.

This collection explores the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in key narratives written in the second decade of the 21st century. From a critical posthumanist perspective the scholars in this collection analyse the aesthetic choices these authors make to depict the posthuman and its aftereffects.

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals¿ lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animals¿ perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to "unlearn" no more and no less than our species¿ arrogance.

The emphasis of the inquiry in Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture.

The landscape of Turkey, with its trees and animals inspires narratives of survival, struggle and escape.

Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash, investigates the notion that British Victorians did see themselves as naturally dominant species over other humans and over animals. They conscientiously, hegemonically were determined to rule those beneath them and the animal within themselves albeit with varying degrees of success and failure.

This book explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, demonstrating the value of a literary animals.

This book explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, demonstrating the value of a literary animals.