{"product_id":"beasts-of-the-modern-imagination-9781421431321","title":"Beasts of the Modern Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1985. Beasts of the Modern Imagination explores a specific tradition in modern thought and art: the critique of anthropocentrism at the hands of beastswriters whose works constitute animal gestures or acts of fatality. It is not a study of animal imagery, although the works that Margot Norris explores present us with apes, horses, bulls, and mice who appear in the foreground of fiction, not as the tropes of allegory or fable, but as narrators and protagonists appropriating their animality amid an anthropocentric universe. These beasts are finally the masks of the human animals who create them, and the textual strategies that bring them into being constitute another version of their struggle. The focus of this study is a small group of thinkers, writers, and artists who create as the animalnot like the animal, in imitation of the animalbut with their animality speaking. The author treats Charles Darwin as the founder of this tradition, as the naturalist whose sha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Introduction: The Biocentric Tradition \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Darwin's Reading of Nature\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the Problem of Mimesis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Nietzsche's \u003ci\u003eEcce Homo\u003c\/i\u003e: Behold the Beast\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. The Fate of the Human Animal in Kafka's Fiction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Kafka's \"Josefine\": The Animal as the Negative Site of Narration\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Max Ernst: The Rhetorical Beast of the Visual Arts \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Ontology of D. H. Lawrence's \u003ci\u003eSt. Mawr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. The Animal and Violence in Hemingway's \u003ci\u003eDeath in the Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Conclusion: The Biocentric Tradition in Context \u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408130908503,"sku":"9781421431321","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421431321.jpg?v=1730501698","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beasts-of-the-modern-imagination-9781421431321","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}