Reading Cats and Dogs offers fifteen examples of ecocritical animal studies from around the world. The essays in this volume complicate the concept of "companion animals" by exploring our relationships with stray and feral animals, utilitarian relationships with other species, a…
by Slovic, Scott, Reynolds, Kev, Hong Chen, Bora, Zélia M., Kerslake, Lorraine, Marroum, Marianne, Adrahane, Athane, Armbruster, Karla, Cazejous-Auge, Claire, Çetin, Önder, Cheng, Qianqian, Gunasekera, Niroshini, Hatooka, Keita, Nsah, Kenneth Toah, Re, Anna, Woodward, Wendy
fromEcocritical theory and practice
Throughout the world, people spend much of their time with animal companions of various kinds, frequently with cats and dogs. What meanings do we make of these relationships? In the ecocritical collection Reading cats and Dogs, a diverse array of scholars considers the philosoph…
"Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and…
