The Animal Part

Download or read book The Animal Part written by Mark Payne and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if human beings could see themselves as animals see them. The Animal Part also makes substantial contributions to the emerging discourse of the posthumanities. Payne offers detailed accounts of the tenuousness of the idea of the human in ancient literature and philosophy and then goes on to argue that close reading must remain a central practice of literary study if posthumanism is to articulate its own prehistory. For it is only through fine-grained literary interpretation that we can recover the poetic thinking about animals that has always existed alongside philosophical constructions of the human. In sum, The Animal Part marks a breakthrough in animal studies and offers a significant contribution to comparative poetics.

Download or read book ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts written by Lucia Raggetti and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘Science of properties’ represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī (9th cent.) ‘On the useful properties of animal parts’ was the first of such compositions in Arabic. His author was a Syriac physician, disciple of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, who worked at the Abbasid court during the floruit of the translation movement. For the composition of his book, as a multilingual scholar, he collected many different antique and late antique sources. The structure of the text itself—a collection of recipes that favoured a fluid transmission—becomes here the key to a new formal analysis that oriented the editorial solutions as well. The ‘Book on the useful properties of animal parts’ is a new tile that the Arabic tradition offers to the larger mosaic representing the transfer of technical knowledge in pre-modern times. This text is an important passage in that process of acquisition and original elaboration of knowledge that characterized the early Abbasid period.

Download or read book Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy written by John Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Observations on certain parts of the animal œconomy written by John HUNTER (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Observations on Certain Parts of the Animal Oeconomy, Inclusive of Several Papers from the Philosophical Transactions, Etc written by John Hunter (Médecin.) and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scientific Memoirs written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: