Other nations : animals in modern literature /
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| Imprint: | Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | xx, 214 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8211885 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Animals, Literature, and the Virtues
- Introduction
- I. Humans Encounter Other Animals
- The Snake
- Snake
- II. Other Animals Encounter Humans
- Arabesque-The Mouse
- Shooting an Elephant
- The Jack Rabbit Drive
- III. Other Animals as Companions
- Pilling the Cat
- Lying Doggo
- My Life as a West African Gray Parrot
- IV. Other Animals as Prey
- The Pleasures of Hunting
- Sketches from a Hunter's Album
- Hunting at Sea
- The Gray Chieftain
- V. Other Animals as Tools
- The Dead Body and the Living Brain
- Doctor Rat
- Terminal Procedure
- VI. Other Animals as Food
- The Slaughterer
- It Was a Different Day When They Killed the Pig
- How to Make a Pigeon Cry
- Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
- Am I Blue?
- VII. Epilogue
- The Limits of Trooghaft
- The Writers
- Acknowledgments
