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Narratology beyond the Human

Storytelling and Animal Life

By (author) David Herman
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, United States
Published: 26th Apr 2018
Dimensions: w 165mm h 243mm d 30mm
Weight: 732g
ISBN-10: 019085040X
ISBN-13: 9780190850401
Barcode No: 9780190850401
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To what extent, and in what manner, do storytelling practices accomodate nonhuman subjects and their modalities of experience, and how can contemporary narrative study shed light on interspecies interactions and entanglements? In Narratology beyond the Human, David Herman addresses these questions through a cross-disciplinary approach to post-Darwinian narratives concerned with animals and human-animal relationships. Herman considers the enabling and constraining effects of different narrative media, examining a range of fictional and nonfictional texts disseminated in print, comics and graphic novels, and film. In focusing on techniques such as the use of animal narrators, alternation between human and nonhuman perspectives, the embedding of stories within stories, and others, the book explores how specific strategies for portraying nonhuman agents both emerge from and contributes to broader attitudes toward animal life. Herman argues that existing frameworks for narrative inquiry must be modified to take into account how stories are interwoven with cultural ontologies, or understandings of what sorts of beings populate the world and how they relate to humans. Showing how questions of narrative bear on ideas of species difference and assumptions about animal minds, Narratology beyond the Human underscores our inextricable interconnectedness with other forms of creatural life and suggests that stories can be used to resituate imaginaries of human action in a more-than-human world.

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It represents an important contribution to the theoretical foundations of animal studies and narratology ... Summing up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE * Narratology Beyond the Human is a fascinating and thought-provoking read for lifewriting scholars and anyone else who wants to be motivated to think outside the box of human exceptionalism. * Biography * ...[T]he book is an exceedingly rich one. I expect it to take its place...as a narratological touchstone for generations to come. * Christopher Breu, Illinois State University, American Literature * Carefully building the argument through an astonishing array of fictional and nonfictional examples and high theory across a range of disciplines, Narratology beyond the Human is a must-read for seasoned scholars and newcomers to the field...Timely, insightful, meticulously researched, and inspiring * Susan Mchugh, University of New England, Modern Fiction Studies * In this excellent and original book, David Herman interweaves the study of narrative structures (narratology) with the cross-disciplinary field of animal studies in order to produce a powerful, complex new paradigm for understanding animal narrative. This paradigm empowers narratology and human-animal narrative, across a variety of genres, to join in expanding our view of narratively structured creatural worlds. * Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University *