Canis Modernis: Human/Dog Coevolution in Modernist Literature

by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick

Book Overview

Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271088036
• ISBN13: 9780271088037
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"