Writing Animals : Language, Suffering, and Animality in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 129505411
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-03880-9
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030038793
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph (c.100,000 words) is the product of over five years of research. Its analysis of 74 twenty-first-century novels, most of which have not previously been studied in any context, demonstrates a previously-unrecognised complexity in the fictional representation of nonhuman life. Drawing on recent research in social and natural sciences as well as philosophy and literary theory, the book conducts a formal, thematic, and intertextual analysis of British, Irish, American, Australian, and German novels to show how contemporary fiction highlights indeterminacy in human-animal relations and the limits of artistic representation. None of the material has been previously published.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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