Beasts of the Modern Imagination : Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence / Margot Norris.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (282 pages): illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781421430263
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Contents:
1. Introduction: The biocentric tradition -- 2. Darwin's reading of nature -- 3. Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the problem of mimesis -- 5. Nietzsche's Ecce homo: Behold the beast -- 6. Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. The ontology of D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr -- 9. The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. Conclusion: The biocentric tradition in context.
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Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1985

1. Introduction: The biocentric tradition -- 2. Darwin's reading of nature -- 3. Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the problem of mimesis -- 5. Nietzsche's Ecce homo: Behold the beast -- 6. Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. The ontology of D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr -- 9. The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. Conclusion: The biocentric tradition in context.

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