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[ecrea] New Book: Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2011)

Tue Jun 28 10:20:07 GMT 2011





Subscribers to the list might be interested in this new publication from Columbia University Press: Anat Pick's Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film.
Reviews:

"Even more than Anat Pick’s preparation and energetic writing, the quality of thought conveyed in this book may be its most significant feature. Here is an original thesis, built from, around, with, and against existing work in related (and unrelated) areas, timely and singular, contributing to several fields and disciplines. The Œcreaturely poetics‚ invoked by Pick work through problems in philosophy, critical theory, film criticism, and literary studies; they address historical questions such as the Holocaust, theoretical/ethical concerns including Œspeciesism,‚ and formal and aesthetic concerns relating to modes and genres in film and literature. Very few scholars can do what Pick has achieved: blending credible film analysis and criticism with animal studies and critical thought." ˜ Akira Mizuta Lippit, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
"An incredibly inspiring and novel approach to rethinking human 
relationships with animals. With its compelling account of an ethics 
based on attentiveness and responsiveness to the vulnerability of animal 
beings, Pick’s important book will steer animal ethics and animals 
studies discussions in new and productive directions." ˜ Matthew 
Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from 
Heidegger to Derrida
"Creaturely Poetics explores the charged, incandescent space in which 
the ordinary or the everyday and the mystical or the theological cross 
on the site of what we call the animal.‚ Working through a dazzling 
array of readings in literature, film, and philosophy, Pick holds the 
complex thought of Simone Weil as a lifeline in what is an unflinching 
and courageous confrontation with the ways we evade what it means to 
share the earth with our fellow creatures." ˜ Cary Wolfe, author of What 
Is Posthumanism
Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Creaturely-Poetics-Animality-Vulnerability-Literature/dp/0231147872/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308208694&sr=8-1 <http://www.amazon.com/Creaturely-Poetics-Animality-Vulnerability-Literature/dp/0231147872/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308208694&sr=8-1>
Amazon.co.uk:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Creaturely+Poetics&x=0&y=0 <http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Creaturely+Poetics&x=0&y=0>
Columbia University Press:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14786-6/creaturely-poetics



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