Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines

by Susan McHugh

Book Overview

Beginning with a historical account of why animal stories pose endemic critical challenges to literary and cultural theory, Animal Stories argues that key creative developments in narrative form became inseparable from shifts in animal politics and science in the past century. Susan McHugh traces representational patterns specific to modern and contemporary fictions of cross-species companionship through a variety of media--including novels,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816670331
• ISBN13: 9780816670338
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"