The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 148087109
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-70666-5
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319706658
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 90,000-word monograph offers a substantive survey of an under-researched field in literary studies: the enduring place of animals in the poetic imagination. Drawing on five years of research, including archival work at the Rosenbach Library, the study examines the work of poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes, Les Murray and others from a creaturely perspective, showing how such writers seek to ‘capture’ animals on the page by ‘releasing’ them through language. The monograph synthesizes fields/disciplines that are normally kept apart such as the philosophy of language with animal studies, and poetic criticism with bioethics.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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