Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
Awards
OverviewBringing togetherconversations in animal studies, plant studies, ecotheory, and biopolitics,Julian Yates crafts scripts for literary and historical study that embrace thefact that we come into being through our relations to other animal, plant,fungal, microbial, viral, mineral, and chemical actors. What emerges is amethodology that fundamentally alters what it means to read in the twenty-firstcentury. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Julian YatesPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Volume: 40 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781517900670ISBN 10: 1517900670 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 10 January 2017 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Impression Part I. Sheep 1. Counting Sheep in the Belly of the Wolf 2. What Was Pastoral (Again)? More Versions (Otium for Sheep) Part II. Oranges 3. Invisible Inc. (Time for Oranges) 4. Gold You Can Eat (On Theft) Part III. Yeast 5. Bread and Stones (On Bubbles) Erasure Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviews<i>Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast</i> promises--and delivers--everything. A microcosmos, it treats sheep, plants, microbes, and Benjamin Franklin's bread rolls, ranging from pastoral poetry to Philip K. Dick. At every turn, Yates surprised and delighted me. This volume's multimodal capaciousness, equally adept in historiographical, philosophical, biographical, and even genetic frameworks, should entice anyone feeling the slightest temptation towards posthuman and ecological cultural studies. --Karl Steel, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY</p> Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression is another of the year's tours de force, an exhilarating rumination on the strange intimacies between nonhuman and human life forms and practices that open a way to imagine the `multi species' shapes of what we think we know about early modern culture. -Studies in English Literature Of Sheep is one of the most sophisticated conjunctions of ecocriticism, posthumanism, and historicism to appear in many years, providing a comprehensive index of our current theoretical moment's most influential proper names and terms of art. It's beautiful in the way that all hand-drawn maps are, and it should be widely read. -Studies in English Literature Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast promises-and delivers-everything. A microcosmos, it treats sheep, plants, microbes, and Benjamin Franklin's bread rolls, ranging from pastoral poetry to Philip K. Dick. At every turn, Yates surprised and delighted me. This volume's multimodal capaciousness, equally adept in historiographical, philosophical, biographical, and even genetic frameworks, should entice anyone feeling the slightest temptation towards posthuman and ecological cultural studies. -Karl Steel, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY <i>Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast</i> promises and delivers everything. A microcosmos, it treats sheep, plants, microbes, and Benjamin Franklin s bread rolls, ranging from pastoral poetry to Philip K. Dick. At every turn, Yates surprised and delighted me. This volume's multimodal capaciousness, equally adept in historiographical, philosophical, biographical, and even genetic frameworks, should entice anyone feeling the slightest temptation towards posthuman and ecological cultural studies. Karl Steel, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY</p> Author InformationJulian Yates is professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance (Minnesota, 2003). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
