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The Animal Part. Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination.
Mark Payne
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Description for The Animal Part. Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination.
paperback. How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? This book seeks to answer this question by exploring the relationship between humans and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Num Pages: 174 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? Mark Payne seeks to answer this question by exploring the relationship between humans and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if humans could see themselves as animals see them. The Animal Part also argues that close reading must remain ... Read more
How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? Mark Payne seeks to answer this question by exploring the relationship between humans and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if humans could see themselves as animals see them. The Animal Part also argues that close reading must remain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226272320
SKU
V9780226272320
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About Mark Payne
Mark Payne is professor in the Department of Classics and a member of the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction.
Reviews for The Animal Part. Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination.
"There is much to treasure and mull over in this book-it is a brave contribution to an exciting body of work and a stimulating assertion of the continued rewards of studying classical literature, even, and especially, in a post-humanist era." (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)