{"product_id":"animal-visions-susan-mary-pyke-9783030038762","title":"Animal Visions: Posthumanist Dream Writing","description":"\u003ci\u003eAnimal Visions\u003c\/i\u003e considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism, working with Emily Brontë's \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel to show how posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human species over other species. Two feminist and post-Freudian responses, Kathy Acker's poem \"Obsession\" (1992) and Anne Carson's \"The Glass Essay\" (1997) most strongly extend Brontë's dream writing in this direction. Building on the trope of a ludic Cathy ghost who refuses the containment of logic and reason, these and other adaptations offer the gift of a radical peri-hysteria. This emotional excess is most clearly seen in Kate Bush's music video \"Wuthering Heights\" (1978) and Peter Kosminsky's film \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e (1992). Such disturbances make space for a moor love that is particularly evident in Jane Urquhart's novel \u003ci\u003eChanging Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and, to a lesser extent Sylvia Plath's poem, \"Wuthering Heights\" (1961). Brontë's \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e and its most productive afterings make space for co-affective relations between humans and other animal beings. Andrea Arnold's film \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and Luis Buñuel's \u003ci\u003eAbismos de Pasión\u003c\/i\u003e (1954) also highlight the rupturing split gaze of non-acting animals in their films. In all of these works depictions of intra-active and entangled responses between animals show the potential for dynamic and generative multispecies relations, where the human is one animal amongst the kin of the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Mary Pyke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030038769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030038762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d","brand":"Susan Mary Pyke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48089041240319,"sku":"9783030038762","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4df83284-16c0-4ad2-b104-c7f4c8c2330d.jpg?v=1769107875","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/animal-visions-susan-mary-pyke-9783030038762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}