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The Modern Bestiary: Animals in the Twentieth-Century Novel.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Modern Bestiary: Animals in the Twentieth-Century Novel./
Author:	Broadway, William Paul.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	171 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-03A.
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28717552
ISBN:	9798535595832

The Modern Bestiary: Animals in the Twentieth-Century Novel.
Broadway, William Paul.

The Modern Bestiary: Animals in the Twentieth-Century Novel. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 171 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The modernist period was characterized by a crisis of humanism. Modernist literary works register a radically altered definition of the human occasioned by contemporary scientific discoveries and intellectual upheavals. More recently, interdisciplinary research in the field of animal studies has prompted a thorough reconsideration of the biological, ethical, and ontological priority of human beings. My dissertation intervenes at the intersection of modernist studies and animals studies by exploring how modernist novels question and critique the primacy and prerogatives of the human being. I examine depictions of human and nonhuman animals in the novels of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, J.M. Coetzee, and David Malouf. Each author questions, contests, or recasts the strict boundary separating humans and animals, and in so doing unsettles longstanding notions about what defines the human being. Together they typify a thematic engagement with the animal, and reexamination of prevailing conceptions of the human, that is characteristic of the modernist period. As a theoretical framework, I draw upon philosophical discourses on animality, pairing each novelist with a philosophical interlocutor: Joyce with Aristotle, Beckett with Descartes, Coetzee with Derrida, and Malouf with Heidegger. I argue that modernist novels reveal an abiding aesthetic and ethical preoccupation with animals, and that modernist responses to the question of the animal serve to challenge dominant philosophical theories of animality. At a time when our treatment of other animals has become ethically intolerable, my project demonstrates the potential of modernist literary texts to reimagine our relationships with the nonhuman.

ISBN: 9798535595832Subjects--Topical Terms:

3284317
British & Irish literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Animals

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