human and other animals in the poetic imagination /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mark Payne.
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Chicago :
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University of Chicago Press,
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2010.
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1 online resource (164 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Imagining animals -- The abject animal -- The beast in pain: abjection and aggression in Archilochus and William Carlos Williams -- Destruction and creation: the work of men and animals in Gustave Flaubert, Gerald Manley Hopkins, and Ezra Pound -- Becoming something else -- Beyond the pale: joining the society of animals in Aristophanes, Herman Melville, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Changing bodies: being and becoming an animal in Semonides, Ovid, and H.P. Lovecraft -- I do not know what it is I am like.
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This study explores the imaginative identification with animals enabled by aggression and the narcissistic aversion from them manifested as destructiveness. It explores the attraction to the society of other animals that finds expression in stories about human beings who try to join them, and the affects that cluster around the possibility that the human body is susceptible in various ways to becoming animal.