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Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings: FlashPoints, cartea 32

Autor Prof. Thangam Ravindranathan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2020
As animals recede from our world, what tale is being told by literature’s creatures? Behold an Animal: Four Exorbitant Readings examines incongruous animals in the works of four major contemporary French writers: an airborne horse in a novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, extinct orangutans in Éric Chevillard, stray dogs in Marie NDiaye, vanishing (bits of) hedgehogs in Marie Darrieussecq. Resisting naturalist assumptions that an animal in a story is simply—literally or metaphorically—an animal, Thangam Ravindranathan understands it rather as the location of something missing. The animal is a lure: an unfinished figure fleeing the frame, crossing bounds of period, genre, even medium and language. Its flight traces an exorbitant (self-)portrait in which thinking admits to its commerce with life and flesh. It is in its animals, at the same time unbearably real and exquisitely unreal, that literature may today be closest to philosophy. 

This book’s primary focus is the contemporary French novel and continental philosophy. In addition to Toussaint, Chevillard, NDiaye, and Darrieussecq, it engages the work of Jean de La Fontaine, Eadweard Muybridge, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett, and Francis Ponge. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780810140714
ISBN-10: 0810140713
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 8 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
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Notă biografică

THANGAM RAVINDRANATHAN is an associate professor of French at Brown University. She is the author of Là où je ne suis pas: récits de dévoyage and Donner le change: L’impensé animal (with Antoine Traisnel). Her essays have appeared in French Forum, Symposium, differences, SubStance, New Formations, L’Esprit créateur, and Critique.

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter One. Melancholy of Horsepower
Chapter Two. Man of the Forest
Chapter Three. Vague Dog
Chapter Four. "Barely a hedgehog, strictly speaking"
Epilogue: The Case of the Hermit Crab 
Notes

Descriere

Behold an Animal examines the philosophical significance of animals in the French novel today. It contributes to critical scholarship on contemporary French literature, comparative literature, Derrida and Deleuze studies, and animal studies.