Canis modernis : human/dog coevolution in modernist literature /

"Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary f...

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Main Author: Kendall-Morwick, Karalyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Series:Animalibus.
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Summary:"Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms"--
Physical Description:viii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780271088020
0271088028