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Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture


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In recent years, many disciplines within the humanities have become increasingly concerned with non-human actors and entities. The environment, animals, machines, objects, weather, and other non-human beings and things have taken center stage to challenge assumptions about what we have traditionally called "the human." Informed by theoretical approaches like posthumanism, the new materialisms, (including Actor Network Theory, Object-Oriented Ontology, and similar approaches) ecocriticism, and critical animal studies, such scholarship has until now had no separate and identifiable collective home at an academic press. This series will provide that home, publishing work that shares a concern with the non-human in literary and cultural studies. The series invites single-authored books and essay collections that focus primarily on literary texts, but from an interdisciplinary, theoretically-informed perspective; it will include work that crosses geographical and period boundaries. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.

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Entangled Fictions Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World

Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World

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By Suvadip Sinha
May 27, 2024

Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human and nonhuman animals in Indian fictional worlds. While drawing upon existing theoretical and philosophical texts with nonhumanist underpinnings, Entangled Fictions argues that the ...

Futures of the Human Subject Technical Mediation, Foucault and Science Fiction

Futures of the Human Subject: Technical Mediation, Foucault and Science Fiction

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By Sławomir Kozioł
May 27, 2024

Futures of the Human Subject focuses on the representation of the effects of technology use on human subjectivity in several recent near-future science fiction novels. Sharing the idea that human subjects are constructed in the world in which they exist, this volume inscribes itself in the wider ...

Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction

Representing (Post)Human Enhancement Technologies in Twenty-First Century US Fiction

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By Carmen Laguarta-Bueno
May 27, 2024

This work studies three twenty-first century novels by Richard Powers, Dave Eggers and Don DeLillo as representative of a new trend of US fiction concerned with the topic of the technological augmentation of the human condition. The different chapters provide, from the double perspective of the ...

The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema: Western and Global Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Nizar Zouidi
December 27, 2023

This collection studies the representations of the character of the monarch in literature and cinema. Being a person, an institution, a character archetype and a narrative role, the characters of the monarch and other royal or regal characters oscillate between humanity and the non-human. As such, ...

Mapping the Posthuman

Mapping the Posthuman

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Edited By Grant Hamilton, Carolyn Lau
December 22, 2023

This book works to delineate some of the major routes by which science and art intersect. Structured according to the origin myths of the posthuman that continue to shape the idea of the human in our technological modernity, this volume gives space to narratives of alter-modernity that resonate ...

The Landscapes of W. H. Auden’s Interwar Poetry Roots and Routes

The Landscapes of W. H. Auden’s Interwar Poetry: Roots and Routes

1st Edition

By Ladislav Vít
September 25, 2023

This is the first book-length study foregrounding Auden’s sense of place as a means for enhancing our grasp of this crucial twentieth-century poet. Proposing that Auden had a remarkable spatial sensibility, this book concentrates on his treatment of his homeland England, as well as the North ...

Animal Remains

Animal Remains

1st Edition

Edited By Sarah Bezan, Robert McKay
May 31, 2023

The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensualities, vulnerabilities and mortalities. But, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, animal ...

Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature Sovereign Colony

Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature: Sovereign Colony

1st Edition

By Nicole A. Jacobs
May 31, 2023

This book examines apian imagery—bees, drones, honey, and the hive—in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society faced unprecedented challenges even as it ...

Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Plants in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Melanie Duckworth, Lykke Guanio-Uluru
May 31, 2023

From the forests of the tales of the Brothers Grimm to Enid Blyton’s The Faraway Tree, from the flowers of Cicely May Barker’s fairies to the treehouse in Andy Griffith and Terry Denton’s popular 13-Storey Treehouse series, trees and other plants have been enduring features of stories for children ...

The Ethos of Digital Environments Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy

The Ethos of Digital Environments: Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy

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Edited By Susanna Lindberg, Hanna-Riikka Roine
May 31, 2023

While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently visible and evaluable. This collection of articles from both distinguished ...

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative

1st Edition

Edited By Sonia Baelo-Allué, Mónica Calvo-Pascual
January 09, 2023

Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key narratives, written in the second decade of ...

The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human

The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human

1st Edition

By Fabienne Collignon
December 30, 2022

The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile—pertaining to an entomological fascination—in relation to subject formation. The book is driven by a central dynamic between form and formlessness, further staging an investigation of the ...

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