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  1. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Autor*in: Danta, Chris
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... mehr

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Universitätsbibliothek Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu"...

     

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  2. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Autor*in: Danta, Chris
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... mehr

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2018 A 11524
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu"-- Prologue: uplifting animals; 1. Looking up, looking down: orientations of the human; 2. The grotesque mouth; 3. 'The highest civilisation among ants': Stevenson and the fable; 4. 'An animal among the animals': Wells and the thought of the future; 5. Animal bachelors and animal brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett; 6. Scapegoats and scapegraces: becoming sacrificial animal in Kafka and Coetzee; Coda: 'Diogenes of the zoo'

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781108428200; 9781108449076
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    RVK Klassifikation: HG 430
    Schlagworte: Fables; Human-animal relationships in literature; Animals in literature; Literature, Modern; Literature, Modern
    Weitere Schlagworte: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Umfang: ix, 216 pages, illustrations, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Autor*in: Danta, Chris
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Prologue: uplifting animals; 1. Looking up, looking down: orientations of the human; 2. The grotesque mouth; 3. 'The highest civilisation among ants': Stevenson and the fable; 4. 'An animal among the animals': Wells and the thought of the future; 5.... mehr

    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2018 A 11524
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
    68/9708
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    Prologue: uplifting animals; 1. Looking up, looking down: orientations of the human; 2. The grotesque mouth; 3. 'The highest civilisation among ants': Stevenson and the fable; 4. 'An animal among the animals': Wells and the thought of the future; 5. Animal bachelors and animal brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett; 6. Scapegoats and scapegraces: becoming sacrificial animal in Kafka and Coetzee; Coda: 'Diogenes of the zoo' "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu"--

     

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  4. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Autor*in: Danta, Chris
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    91.040.60
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781108449076; 1108449077; 9781108428200; 1108428207
    Schlagworte: Fabel; Tiere <Motiv>; Rezeption
    Weitere Schlagworte: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Umfang: ix, 216 Seiten
    Bemerkung(en):

    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 194-208

  5. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Autor*in: Danta, Chris
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    91.040.60
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Quelle: Fachkatalog AVL
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781108449076; 1108449077; 9781108428200; 1108428207
    Schlagworte: Fabel; Tiere <Motiv>; Rezeption
    Weitere Schlagworte: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Umfang: ix, 216 Seiten
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 194-208