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

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Columbia University Press:
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14786-6/creaturely-poetics