Insect Poetics There are millions of species sharing the world with humans and other animals. Though literally woven into the fabric of human affairs, insects are considered alien from the human world.Insects are everywhere. Insect Poetics redresses that imbalance by welcoming insects into the world of let
| Title | : | Insect Poetics |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.63 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0816646961 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 382 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2006-09-29 |
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Insects are everywhere. There are millions of species sharing the world with humans and other animals. Though literally woven into the fabric of human affairs, insects are considered alien from the human world. Animal studies and rights have become a fecund field, but for the most part scant attention has been paid to the relationship between insects and humans. Insect Poetics redresses that imbalance by welcoming insects into the world of letters and cultural debate.
In Insect Poetics, the first book to comprehensively explore the cultural and textual meanings of bugs, editor Eric Brown argues that insects are humanity’s “other.” In order to be experienced, the insect world must be mediated by art or technology (as in the case of an ant farm or Kafka’s Metamorphoses) while humans observe, detached and fascinated.
In eighteen original essays, this book illuminates the ways in which our human intellectual and cultural mode
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