The Many Selves Of Katherine North
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Author | : Emma Geen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1632860236 |
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When we first meet Kit, she's a fox. Nineteen-year-old Kit works for the research department of Shen Corporation as a phenomenaut. She's been “jumping”--projecting her consciousness, through a neurological interface--into the bodies of lab-grown animals made for the purpose of research for seven years, which is longer than anyone else at ShenCorp, and longer than any of the scientists thought possible. She experiences a multitude of other lives--fighting and fleeing as predator and prey, as mammal, bird, and reptile--in the hope that her work will help humans better understand the other species living alongside them. Her closest friend is Buckley, her Neuro--the computer engineer who guides a phenomenaut through consciousness projection. His is the voice, therefore, that's always in Kit's head and is the thread of continuity that connects her to the human world when she's an animal. But when ShenCorp's mission takes a more commercial--and ominous--turn, Kit is no longer sure of her safety. Propelling the reader into the bodies of the other creatures that share our world, The Many Selves of Katherine North takes place in the near future but shows us a dazzling world far, far from the realm of our experience.
Author | : Brian Carter |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2018-02-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 140889615X |
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A beautiful lost classic of nature writing which sits alongside Tarka the Otter, Watership Down, War Horse and The Story of a Red Deer This is the story of Wulfgar, the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor, and of his nemesis, Scoble the trapper, in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1947. As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive its portrayal of damaged humanity, it is both a portrait of place and a gripping story of survival. Uniquely straddling the worlds of animals and men, Brian Carter's A Black Fox Running is a masterpiece: lyrical, unforgiving and unforgettable.
Author | : Nora Castle |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 376 |
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ISBN | : 3031416953 |
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Author | : Katherine Ashenburg |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466867760 |
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A spirited chronicle of the West's ambivalent relationship with dirt The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and perhaps going so far as to dip your hands in some water. Did Napoleon know something we didn't when he wrote Josephine "I will return in five days. Stop washing"? And why is the German term Warmduscher—a man who washes in warm or hot water—invariably a slight against his masculinity? Katherine Ashenburg takes on such fascinating questions as these in Dirt on Clean, her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, Dirt on Clean considers the bizarre prescriptions of history's doctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized.
Author | : Susan McHugh |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2020-11-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030397734 |
Download The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 theory. User-friendly language, references, even suggestions for further readings are included to help newcomers to the field understand how it has taken shape primarily through recent decades. To further aid teachers, sections are organized by conventions of periodization, and chapters address a range of canonical and popular texts. Bookended by sections devoted to the field’s conceptual foundations and new directions, the volume is designed to set an agenda for literary animal studies for decades to come.
Author | : Liza B. Bauer |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 440 |
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ISBN | : 3031581164 |
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Author | : Wendy Woodward |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3319568744 |
Download Indigenous Creatures, Native Knowledges, and the Arts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 cosmologies, animals act as vital players in the lives of cultures. From early days in colonial contact zones through contemporary expressions in art, film, and literature, the volume’s unique emphasis on Southern Africa and North America – historical loci of the greatest ranges of species and linguistic diversity – help to situate how indigenous knowledges of human-animal relations are being adapted to modern conditions of life shared across species lines.
Author | : Simine Vazire |
Publisher | : Guilford Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2012-06-20 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1462505112 |
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An exploration of self-knowledge looks at current research on how people perceive their own thoughts, feelings, traits, and behavior, with coverage encompassing the mental, behavioral, biological, and social structures that underlie self-knowledge.
Author | : Timothy C. Baker |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2019-01-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030038807 |
Download Writing Animals Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book surveys a broad range of contemporary texts to show how representations of human-animal relations challenge the anthropocentric nature of fiction. By looking at the relation between language and suffering in twenty-first-century fiction and drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches, Baker suggests new opportunities for exploring the centrality of nonhuman animals in recent fiction: writing animal lives leads to new narrative structures and forms of expression. These novels destabilise assumptions about the nature of pain and vulnerability, the burden of literary inheritance, the challenge of writing the Anthropocene, and the relation between text and image. Including both well-known authors and emerging talents, from J.M. Coetzee and Karen Joy Fowler to Sarah Hall, Alexis Wright, and Max Porter, and texts from experimental fiction to work for children, Writing Animals offers an original perspective on both contemporary fiction and the field of literary animal studies.
Author | : Paula Arcari |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2019-09-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9811395853 |
Download Making Sense of ‘Food’ Animals Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book addresses the persistence of meat consumption and the use of animals as food in spite of significant challenges to their environmental and ethical legitimacy. Drawing on Foucault’s regime of power/knowledge/pleasure, and theorizations of the gaze, it identifies what contributes to the persistent edibility of ‘food’ animals even, and particularly, as this edibility is increasingly critiqued. Beginning with the question of how animals, and their bodies, are variously mapped by humans according to their use value, it gradually unpacks the roots of our domination of ‘food’ animals – a domination distinguished by the literal embodiment of the ‘other’. The logics of this embodied domination are approached in three inter-related parts that explore, respectively, how knowledge, sensory and emotional associations, and visibility work together to render animal’s bodies as edible flesh. The book concludes by exploring how to more effectively challenge the ‘entitled gaze’ that maintains ‘food’ animals as persistently edible.