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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Multispecies Chronotopes- Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human / Tischleder, Babette B. -- Vegetal Life and Plant Poetics -- Cleveland Select / Fetterley, Judith -- Blood on the Kitchen Table / Haselstein, Ulla -- Flowers / Twelbeck, Kirsten -- Arboreal Encounters in Richard Powers's The Overstory / Spengler, Birgit -- Photo Series #1 -- The Lives of Trees / Spengler, Birgit -- Sonic Bugs and Lyrical Beasts -- Skunk / Kilcup, Karen L. -- "The Citizenry of All Things Within One World": Mary Oliver's Poetic Explorations of Kinship / Sarkowsky, Katja -- Strange Animals in Stylish Habitats: Marianne Moore's Poetry Revisited / Sielke, Sabine -- The Beetles-Greatest Hits: The Rhythm 'n' Sound of Insects / Herzogenrath, Bernd -- Robert Lowell's Hidden Cats: From Lord Weary's Castle to Dolphin / Franke, Astrid -- Zoological Encounters / Scharf, Susanne -- Photo Series #2 -- Urban Animals / Tischleder, Babette B. -- Political Ecologies in a Multispecies World -- Notes on Thoreau's Posthuman Democracy / Voelz, Johannes -- Sacred Pact or Overkill? Human-Bison Relations in North American Mythologies / Mackenthun, Gesa -- Hands: Transdifferent Encounters between Human and Nonhuman Animals / Breinig, Helmbrecht -- Immanence is Bliss: The Ecological Imagination in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow / Majewska, Magda -- The Decline of Humanity in a Post-Animal World: The Animal Motif in Cormac McCarthy's The Road / Wiser, Yvonne -- Art Work -- Uninvited Collaborations with Nature / Katchadourian, Nina -- With and Beyond Nonhumans: Encounters, Empathy, Entanglements -- "Strange Matings" and Cultural Encounters: Octavia Butler's Fiction as "Companion Species" to Theory / Holmgren Troy, Maria -- More Than Human? Dracula's Monstrosity / Scholz, Susanne -- "Revealing the Wellsprings of Power": An Essay on the Social Function of Humor in "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story" / Buschendorf, Christa -- Empathy with the Animal / Brinckmann, Christine N. -- Martin Usborne's Dogs: On Entangled Empathy in The Silence of Dogs in Cars and Where Hunting Dogs Rest / Lillge, Claudia -- Paws of Courage: The Heroization of Dogs in Contemporary American Culture / Wendt, Simon -- Acknowledgements -- Biographical Notes The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies, Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn, the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth
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