Canis modernis: human/dog coevolution in modernist literature

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"Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms"--

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Full title :Canis modernis : human/dog coevolution in modernist literature / Karalyn Kendall-Morwick.

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Publication Date:©2021

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Publisher(s):The Pennsylvania State University Press
Place of Publication:University Park, Pennsylvania
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

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Description:viii, 206 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

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ISBN:9780271088020, 0271088028
oclc:on1141159083
LC Classification:PN56.D6
Dewey Decimal:809/.933629772

Introduction : modernism and the canine condition -- Canine origins : Jack London and Konrad Lorenz -- Mongrelizing form : Virginia Woolf's Flush -- The new dog : Albert Payson Terhune and J.R. Ackerley -- Dogging the subject : Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas -- Coda : modernism and literary canine studies.

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Chiens dans la littérature Dogs in literature Human-animal relationships in literature Modernism (Literature) Modernisme (Littérature) Relations homme-animal dans la littérat…