Animal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science: Who Knows If I am Not Subject to Knowledge?
Author:   Ruth Y.Y. Hung
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Pages:   301
Publication Date:   21 January 2026
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Animal Lives through Five Centuries of Art and Science: Who Knows If I am Not Subject to Knowledge?


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Author:   Ruth Y.Y. Hung
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032059765


ISBN 10:   3032059763
Pages:   301
Publication Date:   21 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction: On Human Aggression.-  1. Mimesis: Sacrifices in the Bible, Oracle Bones, and the Greek Tragedies.- 2. Rational Realism: Specimens in the Italian Renaissance.- 3. Naturalism: Subjects in the Laboratory and the Experimental Novel.- 4. Fascist Aesthetics: The Pack from the Slaughterhouse.- 5. Fantastic Realism: Happy Meat in Happy Meals.- 6. Extinct Species in the Realism of Our Time.- Coda: Commemorating Animals in Literature.

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Ruth Y.Y. Hung is Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is also a Senior Fellow at Advance HE, a member of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE), and holds editorial roles at the American Journal of Art and Design and boundary 2. Her research includes world literature, modern criticism, and animal studies. Notably, she authored the first English-language critical biography of the Chinese intellectual Hu Feng, titled, Hu Feng: A Marxist Intellectual in a Communist State, 1930-1955 (2020).  

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