Malay, M. (2017) Why Look at Animals? Creaturely Encounters in Philosophy and Literature. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 53 (2). pp. 142-162. ISSN 0015-8518
Abstract
This essay considers encounters with animals in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Stanley Cavell and J. M. Coetzee. More specifically, it explores what it calls ‘poetic’ engagements with animals – engagements in which our relations with nonhuman others are not cast in appropriative or instrumental terms. Along the way, it draws on the work of the American philosopher Cora Diamond. It also takes inspiration from a famous passage from George Eliot’s Middlemarch, and offers a creaturely, environmental reading of some of the ideas invoked in that novel. What, it asks, might it be like to respond to Eliot’s injunction to treat the lives of others with complete seriousness?
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Forum for Modern Language Studies following peer review. The version of record Michael Malay; Why Look at Animals? Creaturely Encounters in Philosophy and Literature. Forum Mod Lang Stud 2017; 53 (2): 142-162 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx004. |
Keywords: | poetry; animal studies; ecocriticism; philosophy; literature |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2017 08:36 |
Last Modified: | 15 Apr 2019 00:42 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx004 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/fmls/cqx004 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117729 |