{"product_id":"9783030038762","title":"Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature: Posthumanist Dream Writing","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature: Posthumanist Dream Writing\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePyke, Susan Mary\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2019-03-26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030038762\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-03877-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 314\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46612115751052,"sku":"9783030038762","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030038762.jpg?v=1773283828","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030038762","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}