Creaturely poetics : animality and vulnerability in literature and film / Anat Pick.
2011
PN56.A64 P53 2011
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Title
Creaturely poetics : animality and vulnerability in literature and film / Anat Pick.
Author
ISBN
0231519850 (electronic bk.)
9780231519854 (electronic bk.)
9780231147866 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231147864 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231147873 (pbk.)
0231147872 (pbk.)
9780231519854 (electronic bk.)
9780231147866 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231147864 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231147873 (pbk.)
0231147872 (pbk.)
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 249 pages)
Call Number
PN56.A64 P53 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)872688994
Summary
Simone Weil once wrote that ""the vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence."" With these words, she established a relationship among vulnerability, beauty, and existence that transcends the boundaries separating the species. Her conception of a radical ethics and aesthetics could be characterized as a new ""poetics of species, "" that forces us to rethink the significance of the body, both human and animal. Exploring the ""logic of flesh, "" or how art and culture use the body to mark species identity, Anat Pick reimagines a poetics tha.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication and Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Creaturely Bodies; 1. The Inhumanity of Literature; 1. Humanity Unraveled, Humanity Regained: The Holocaust and the Discourse of Species; 2. Neanderthal Poetics in William Golding's The Inheritors; 3. The Indignities of Species in Marie Darrieussecq's Pig Tales; 2. The Inhumanity of Film; 4. Cine-Zoos; 5. Scientific Surrealism in the Films of Georges Franju and Frederick Wiseman; 6. Werner Herzog's Creaturely Poetics; Conclusion: Animal Saintliness; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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Print version: Pick, Anat. Creaturely poetics. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011
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