Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Anat Pick

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Paper, 264 pages,
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March, 2011
Cloth, 264 pages,
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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Creaturely Bodies

Part 1 The Inhumanity of Literature

1. Humanity Unraveled, Humanity Regained: The Holocaust and the Discourse of Species

2. Neanderthal Poetics in William Golding’s The Inheritors

3. The Indignities of Species in Marie Darrieussecq’s Pig Tales

Part 2 The Inhumanity of Film

4. Cine-Zoos

5. Scientific Surrealism in the Films of Georges Franju and Frederick Wiseman

6. Werner Herzog’s Creaturely Poetics

Conclusion: Animal Saintliness

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies
• Film
• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Anat Pick is senior lecturer in film and program leader for film and video: theory and practice at the University of East London. She has published on Henry James and Emmanuel Levinas, Giorgio Agamben, Friedrich Nietzsche, Simone Weil, posthumanist theory, and independent film.

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