{"product_id":"the-animal-part-mark-payne-9780226650845","title":"The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if human beings could see themselves as animals see them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Animal Part\u003c\/i\u003e also makes substantial contributions to the emerging discourse of the posthumanities. Payne offers detailed accounts of the tenuousness of the idea of the human in ancient literature and philosophy and then goes on to argue that close reading must remain a central practice of literary study if posthumanism is to articulate its own prehistory. For it is only through fine-grained literary interpretation that we can recover the poetic thinking about animals that has always existed alongside philosophical constructions of the human. In sum, \u003ci\u003eThe Animal Part\u003c\/i\u003e marks a breakthrough in animal studies and offers a significant contribution to comparative poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Payne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226650847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226650845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2011","brand":"Mark Payne","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086421274879,"sku":"9780226650845","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70b854d5-a60c-4a6f-9fb2-2a99f4d63f5c.jpg?v=1769094578","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-animal-part-mark-payne-9780226650845","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}