Poetic Animals and Animal Souls

by Randy Malamud

Book Overview

This book offers a new paradigm for reading and appreciating animals in literature and addresses how human culture views animals in poetry. Part one sets up a theoretical overview and posits some aesthetic and ethical ideals for transposing animals into art, while part two presents a more focused practical application of these ideals in one strain of animal poetry (as seen in the works of Marianne Moore, Jos Emilio Pacheco, Gary Snyder, Pattiann...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403961786
• ISBN13: 9781403961785
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.7"