{"product_id":"of-sheep-oranges-and-yeast-a-multispecies-impression-9781517900670","title":"Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn what senses do animals, plants, and minerals “write”? How does their “writing” mark our livesour past, present, and future? Addressing such questions with an exhilarating blend of creative flair and theoretical depth, \u003ci\u003eOf Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast\u003c\/i\u003e traces how the lives of, yes, sheep, oranges, gold, and yeast mark the stories of those animals we call “human.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together often separate conversations in animal studies, plant studies, ecotheory, and biopolitics, \u003ci\u003eOf Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast\u003c\/i\u003e crafts scripts for literary and historical study that embrace the fact that we come into being through our relations to other animal, plant, fungal, microbial, viral, mineral, and chemical actors. The book opens and closes in the company of a Shakespearean character talking through his painful encounter with the skin of a lamb (in the form of parchment). This encounter stages a visceral awareness of what Julian Yates names a “multispecies impression,” the way all acts of writing are saturated with the “writing” of other beings. Yates then develops a multimodal reading strategy that traces a series of anthropo-zoo-genetic figures that derive from our comaking with sheep (keyed to the story of biopolitics), oranges (keyed to economy), and yeast (keyed to the notion of foundation or infrastructure). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking with an array of materials (published and archival), across disciplines and historical periods (Classical to postmodern), the book allows sheep, oranges, and yeast to dictate their own chronologies and plot their own stories. What emerges is a methodology that fundamentally alters what it means to read in the twenty-first century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOf Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast\u003c\/i\u003e promises—and delivers—everything. A microcosmos, it treats sheep, plants, microbes, and Benjamin Franklin’s bread rolls, ranging from pastoral poetry to Philip K. Dick. At every turn, Yates surprised and delighted me. This volume's multimodal capaciousness, equally adept in historiographical, philosophical, biographical, and even genetic frameworks, should entice anyone feeling the slightest temptation towards posthuman and ecological cultural studies.\"—Karl Steel, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOf Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression\u003c\/i\u003e is another of the year's tours de force, an exhilarating rumination on the strange intimacies between nonhuman and human life forms and practices that open a way to imagine the ‘multi species’ shapes of what we think we know about early modern culture.\"—\u003ci\u003eStudies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOf Sheep\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most sophisticated conjunctions of ecocriticism, posthumanism, and historicism to appear in many years, providing a comprehensive index of our current theoretical moment’s most influential proper names and terms of art. It’s beautiful in the way that all hand-drawn maps are, and it should be widely read.\"—\u003ci\u003eStudies in English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eImpression \u003cbr\u003ePart I. Sheep\u003cbr\u003e1. Counting Sheep in the Belly of the Wolf\u003cbr\u003e2. What Was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions (\u003ci\u003eOtium\u003c\/i\u003e for Sheep)\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Oranges\u003cbr\u003e3. Invisible Inc. (Time for Oranges)\u003cbr\u003e4. Gold You Can Eat (On Theft)\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Yeast\u003cbr\u003e5. Bread and Stones (On Bubbles)\u003cbr\u003eErasure\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040953237847,"sku":"9781517900670","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517900670.jpg?v=1750948386","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/of-sheep-oranges-and-yeast-a-multispecies-impression-9781517900670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}