{"product_id":"stalking-the-subject-carrie-rohman-9780231145077","title":"Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal","description":"Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a \"human\" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity. \u003ci\u003eThe Island of Dr. Moreau\u003c\/i\u003e embodies a Darwinian nightmare of the evolutionary continuum; \u003ci\u003eThe Croquet Player\u003c\/i\u003e thematizes the dialectic between evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; and \u003ci\u003eWomen in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSt. Mawr\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e all refuse to project animality onto others, inverting the traditional humanist position by valuing animal consciousness. A novel treatment of the animal in literature, Stalking the Subject provides vital perspective on modernism's most compelling intellectual and philosophical issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carrie Rohman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231145071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231145077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/12\/2008 pg. 25","brand":"Carrie Rohman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056687247615,"sku":"9780231145077","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fab8c5c2-3020-4884-a47f-d0260bbd9d01.jpg?v=1685042706","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stalking-the-subject-carrie-rohman-9780231145077","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}