Animals and Their People : Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies.

Intro -- Animals and Their People: Connecting East and West in Cultural Animal Studies -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface-Anna Barcz and Dorota Łagodzka -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1: Correlation in Arts: Theory and Practice of Art towards Nonhuman Animals -- Between Philology and Biology: Animal Music and Its Epistemological and Methodological Framework -- Human and Animal Portraits, or the Issue of Similarity after Darwin -- Animal Art Exhibitions in Poland from the Late 1990s to the Present Day -- Part 2: Canine as a Framework -- Contact Zones-Where Dogs and Humans Meet: Dog-Human Metamorphoses in Contemporary Art -- Renaissance Humanists and Their Dogs -- My Dog and Literary "Translation" Criticism (The Subjectivity of the Dog in Flush by Virginia Woolf and Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka) -- "We Stretch Our Limits and Change Our Lives": Interspecies Communication in Contemporary American Pet Memoirs -- Part 3: Nonhuman Animals in the Ecriture Feminine -- Bodily Encounters with the Animal: the Dog and His/Her Human-Who Are They? -- Thalia Field's Posthumanist "Ecology of Questions" in Bird Lovers, Backyard -- From Species (Co-)Existence to Species (Co-)Evolution: Neo-Darwinian Concepts in the Literary Works of Anna Świrszczyńska and Anna Nasiłowska -- Part 4: Human and Nonhuman Animal Postmodernity -- Postmodern Breed: the Crisis of Breed as a Master Narrative of the Dog World -- People Like Animals? The Significance of Animal Threads in the Post-Apocalyptic World in The Last of Us -- Rewilding and Moral Conflicts: Ethics in the Aftermath of Successful Environmental Protection -- Part 5: Philosophy in Quest for Nonhuman Animals -- Political Nonhuman Animal Voices: Rethinking Language and Politics with Nonhuman Animals.

New Concept of Subjectivity in Schopenhauer's Philosophy as a Basis of Morality for Human and Nonhuman Animals -- Animal Language and Human Discourse -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

In Animals and Their People, editors Anna Barcz and Dorota Łagodzka present a collection of texts providing a zoocentric insight into philosophical, artistic, and literary issues in Anglo-American and Central-Eastern European thought.

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