{"product_id":"stalking-the-subject-modernism-and-the-animal-paperback","title":"Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarrie Rohman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuman and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a \"human\" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity. \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Dr. Moreau\u003c\/i\u003e embodies a Darwinian nightmare of the evolutionary continuum; \u003ci\u003eThe Croquet Player\u003c\/i\u003e thematizes the dialectic between evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; and \u003ci\u003eWomen in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSt. Mawr\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e all refuse to project animality onto others, inverting the traditional humanist position by valuing animal consciousness. A novel treatment of the animal in literature, Stalking the Subject provides vital perspective on modernism's most compelling intellectual and philosophical issues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarrie Rohman is assistant professor of English at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.8 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454393335986,"sku":"9780231145077","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/deb3b40cb68261e79c837228d7e9661a.webp?v=1778849970","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/stalking-the-subject-modernism-and-the-animal-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}