Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence

by Margot Norris

Originally published in 1985. Beasts of the Modern Imagination explores a specific tradition in modern thought and art: the critique of anthropocentrism at the hands of "beasts"--writers whose works constitute animal gestures or acts of fatality. It is not a study of animal imagery, although the works that Margot Norris explores present us with apes, horses, bulls, and mice who appear in the foreground of fiction, not as the tropes of allegory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421431327
• ISBN13: 9781421431321
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"