An Eclectic Bestiary
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An Eclectic Bestiary

Encounters in a More-than-Human World

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An Eclectic Bestiary

Encounters in a More-than-Human World

About this book

The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact has put our planet's ecosystems into great jeopardy, the book explores literary, sonic, and visual imaginaries that feature encounters between and across a variety of living creatures: beetles and bisons, people and pigeons, trees and spiderwebs, vegetables and violets, orchards and octopi, vampires and tricksters. Offering a wide range of critical and creative contributions to Human Animal Studies , Critical Plant Studies and the Nonhuman Turn , the volume seeks to foster new ways of imagining a more »response-able« coexistence on our shared Earth.

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Yes, you can access An Eclectic Bestiary by Birgit Spengler, Babette B. Tischleder, Birgit Spengler,Babette B. Tischleder in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Art Theory & Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction: Multispecies Chronotopes – Keywords for Thinking Creatively Beyond the Human
  4. Vegetal Life and Plant Poetics
  5. Photo Series #1
  6. Sonic Bugs and Lyrical Beasts
  7. Photo Series #2
  8. Political Ecologies in a Multispecies World
  9. Art Work
  10. With and Beyond Nonhumans: Encounters, Empathy, Entanglements
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Biographical Notes