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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"animality"”.
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Species Sadness: Race, Gender, And Animality In Twentieth-Century Mexico And Central America
While the nonhuman has generally been disregarded as irrelevant to Mexicanist and Central Americanist scholarship on race, sexuality, gender, and politics, this project argues that thinking through the animal was a key method through which twentieth-century writers revised what ought to be …
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Humankindness: Illness, Animality, and the Limits of the Human in the Victorian Novel
… a link between representations of animals or animality and representations of illness in the Victorian novel, and examines the narrative uses and ideological consequences of such representations. Figurations of animality and illness in Victorian fiction have been examined extensively as …
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Sharing “the flesh of the world”: alterity, animality, and radical community in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy
<p>In this dissertation, I closely examine Maurice Merleau-Ponty's treatment of non-human ("animal") subjectivities and his later conception of the relationship - or what he calls the "strange kinship'' - between 'the human" and "the animal." I argue that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy - especially …
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A winter of animal suffering: sacrificial logic, the discourse of animality, and sensory rhetoric in Richard Adam's Watership down
… human-animal divide resulted in a discourse of animality as identified by Dr. Cary Wolfe in Animal Rites. The discourse of animality determines the rights of beings through animalized identity schematics that justify the sacrifice, or non-criminal putting to death, of real and metaphorical …
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How the soul slips in: Virginia Woolf's (un)natural history of dogs
… human-making ontologies are better understood. Animality is not an earmark of the “other,” rather it is more often revealed when compulsions of the State are at work on unstable human categories. Woolf uses animals (specifically dogs) because they are a natural proxy to human social structural …
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The Horned God as Environmental Figure in Anglophone Fantasy Fiction and Live Action Role-Play.
… deity and a liminal figure between humanity, animality and divinity, arguing that the combination of these two features makes him useful to think with about human relationships with the environment. Furthermore, this thesis aims to draw attention to speculative fiction and fantasy role-play as …
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Conceptions of milk (and 'milking') in seventeenth-century England
… it will argue that conceptions of femininity and animality cannot be escaped when discussing milk.
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THE JEWISH ANIMAL IN POST-HOLOCAUST JEWISH AMERICAN POETRY
… for our brutal humanity as well as our essential animality—which is at least as often noble and good as it is otherwise. By highlighting the value of a Jewish ecocritical lens, this dissertation suggests that there may be as many culturally situated versions of ecocriticism as there are cultures, …
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Cyborg Butterflies, Liminal Medicine: Thyroid Hormone Treatment, 1890-1970
… and reinforces the conceptions of gender and animality. THT emerged in the 1890s as an organotherapy, or a medicine made from animal organs. Like other organotherapies, general physicians used THT for a wide variety of ailments that had not been scientifically proven through the practices of …
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Aspects of Animal Imagery in Petrarch’s 'Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta'
… in medieval culture, of the notion of animality in relation to and in the representation of human passions. Chapter 2 considers Petrarch’s potential engagement with the repertoire of animal imagery in the tradition of Occitan poetry. It examines the set of zoological images of bestiary …
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Politics and the Aesthetic Animal: Aristotle and Adorno
… of the human depends is also a turn toward animality. In this sense, the promise of humanity and its legacy concerns less a defense of the classical humanism being eroded by the vicissitudes of history, than the possibility of uncovering the paths not followed by this tradition that might …
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Heidegger and the philosophy of life : Kantian and post-Kantian thinking in the work of the early Heidegger as the foundation for a new Lebensphilosophie
… often make references to the issue of animality, as if he were trying to correct an issue left unresolved in Sein und Zeit.In this thesis I shall argue not only that those thinkers Heidegger took himself for the most part to be disagreeing with: Descartes, Kant and Husserl, could have …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… husk of species exceptionalism as the closet of animality looms loudly in the backdrop. What my research reveals is that interspecies eros is a central and under-analyzed component of thinking around nonhuman animals. I do not, however, suggest that rejuvenated attention to interspecies and …
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Encountering the nonhuman: body and ecological thinking in contemporary Chinese literature and vsual culture
… the intricate proximity between humanity and animality. In Chapter 2, the focus shifts to the global imbalance in waste distribution and its resultant environmental injustices. It exposes the dire conditions of sorting labor and the material entanglements between the human body and waste. The …
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Facing The Animal : Physiognomy and Pathognomy in the Long Nineteenth Century
… and extend representations and theories of animality, and of the human face. Two texts that greatly influenced theories of face-reading are Johann Casper Lavater’s Essays on Physiognomy: For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind (English translation published in 1789) and …
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Animal-Woman journey(s): posthuman embodiment of zoomorphic folk tales
… relatedness, this thesis attends to post-human-animality through a process of literal and figurative interrogation of skin and language, translating these stories of Animal-Woman transformations as markers of otherness and vehicles of change. Alongside careful attention to the ethno-linguistic, …
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Discontinuities in immanent worlds: the human/nonhuman animal split in Spinoza and the Zhuāngzi
… to contemporary discussions on the issue of animality in a unique way, but also to complicate the sweeping generalizations we make about “philosophies of immanence” by comparing two immanentist figures with remarkably different philosophical terminologies, questions, and concerns.</p>
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Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysical Nature of the Soul and its Union with the Body
… can satisfactorily account for the rationality, animality, and unity of the human being. At best, each competitor can account for two out of the three. In his view, therefore, Aquinas’ rejection of competing accounts provides positive reasons for affirming the hylomorphic account of body and …
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The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s
… the barrenness of the desert with the couple’s animality, revising the narrative of ecological barrenness by including in the couple’s rich and totally naturalized love affair. The fourth chapter focuses on Margaret Atwood’s first novel, The Edible Woman. Atwood presents the narrative of Marian, …