On Fiction and Being a Good Animal - Hardcover

Rando, David P.

 
9781399538053: On Fiction and Being a Good Animal
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1399538055 ISBN 13: 9781399538053
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Being a Good Animal argues that we should abandon the persistent humanist idea that fiction can produce better people. Instead, we should read and value fiction according to its ability to help us to envision being better animals. Inspired by Theodor W. Adorno, David Rando defines a good animal as one who does not live a life of domination. He argues that when readers approach fiction’s wishful images with non-anthropocentric expectations, we are rewarded by anthropocosmic visions of the world - ones in which humans are in and with the world but no longer at the centre of it.
In compelling readings of Agustina Bazterrica, T. C. Boyle, Leonora Carrington, Marian Engel, Karen Joy Fowler, Franz Kafka, Doris Lessing, Clarice Lispector, Kenzaburo Oe, Olga Tokarczuk, and Jesmyn Ward, the book explores wishful images that pertain to the nonhuman and more-than-human worlds. Readers will discover in this fiction wishful images relating to irreconcilable minds and experiences, human-nonhuman family relationships, love and risk across race and species, and shared vulnerability, communion and pleasure.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Rando is a Professor of English in the Department of English at Trinity University, Texas, USA. He is the author of four books: Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts: Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction (2023), Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce (2022), Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology (2017) and Modernist Fiction and News: Representing Experience in the Early Twentieth Century (2011).

Von der hinteren Coverseite

[headline]Argues that literature has a special role to play in developing a wishful, visionary and utopian sensibility for living in a more-than-human worldInstead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Being a Good Animal argues that we should value fiction for its ability to envision being better human animals – less exceptional and dominating, more creaturely and familial. This book isolates wishful images that pertain to nonhuman animal life and to human-animal relationships in a range of contemporary novels, while forging fresh connections between critical animal studies, critical social theory and literary ethics. David P. Rando demonstrates that ‘anthropocosmic’ visions in literature help to reposition the human with and among other animals instead of at the centre and offer opportunities for shared vulnerability and communion.[bio]David P. Rando is Professor of English at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. His previous books include Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts (2023); Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce (2022); Hope and Wish Image in Music Technology (2017); and Modernist Fiction and News (2011).

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1399538055
ISBN 13 
9781399538053
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
129
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Nicht verfügbar
Verantwortliche Person
Nicht verfügbar

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9781399538060: On Fiction and Being a Good Animal

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  1399538063 ISBN 13:  9781399538060
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2026
Softcover