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  • More-than-Human Aging

    Animals, Robots, and Care in Later Life

    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species? Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging? So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms. This is the first collection of original work that considers ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Animal Satire

    Edited by Robert McKay, Susan McHugh ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works ... Read more

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  • Posthumanism in Art and Science

    A Reader

    Edited by Giovanni Aloi, Susan McHugh ...
    Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be human in an increasingly more-than-human world that has lost faith in the ideal of humanism, the autonomous, rational subject, and it models generative alternatives cognizant of the demands of social and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Posthumanism in Art and Science

    A Reader

    Edited by Giovanni Aloi, Susan McHugh ...
    Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be human in an increasingly more-than-human world that has lost faith in the ideal of humanism, the autonomous, rational subject, and it models generative alternatives cognizant of the demands of social and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals, animality, and human-animal relations in literature. To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date, its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English, while also accommodating emergent discussions of the full range of media and contexts with which literary studies engages, especially film and critical ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts

    Animal Studies in Modern Worlds

    Edited by Wendy Woodward, Susan McHugh ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Human-Animal Studies

    Edited by Garry Marvin, Susan McHugh ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Human-animal studies is an academic field that has grown exponentially over the past decade. It explores the whys, hows, and whats of human-animal relations: why animals are represented and configured in different ways in human cultures and societies around the world; how they are imagined, experienced, and given significance; what these relationships might signify about being human; and what ... Read more

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  • Dog

    by Susan McHugh ...
    Series Book 6 - Animal
    The story of the canine has been fundamentally entwined with that of humanity since the earliest times, and this ancient and fascinating story is told in Susan McHugh’s Dog, now available in B-format.The book unravels the debate about whether dogs are descended from wolves, and moves on to deal with canines in mythology, religion and health, dog cults in ancient and medieval civilizations as ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Love in a Time of Slaughters

    Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction

    by Susan McHugh ...
    Series series AnthropoScene
    Love in a Time of Slaughters examines a diverse array of contemporary creative narratives in which genocide and extinction blur species lines in order to show how such stories can promote the preservation of biological and cultural diversity in a time of man-made threats to species survival.From indigenous novels and Japanese anime to art installations and truth commission reports, Susan McHugh ... Read more

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    Edited by Louise Westling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from ... Read more

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  • Literary Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant ... Read more

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  • Literature

    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... Read more

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