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The Animalizing Imagination

Totemism, Textuality and Ecocriticism

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  • © 2000

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  1. Alan Bleakley
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Burden of the Beasts

    • Alan Bleakley
    Pages 1-25

  3. Aesthetic Animals

    • Alan Bleakley
    Pages 26-50

  4. Suffering Animals

    • Alan Bleakley
    Pages 51-94

  5. Literary Beasts

    • Alan Bleakley
    Pages 95-127

  6. Animals and Information

    • Alan Bleakley
    Pages 128-155

  7. Postscript

    • Alan Bleakley
    Pages 156-164

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 159-164
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Animals appear not just as biological creatures, but as vehicles of meaning for human imagination, mind and culture. Animal life may form the basis for an animalizing imagination that can enhance our cultural, religious and aesthetic sensibilities. This imagination is rooted in the pre-modern affective relationship between shamans and their familiars, but can be tracked to our post-modern ecological crisis, where we can reclaim a totemic identification with animals as signifiers of a new ecological understanding.

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...offers new ground for debates on how culture shapes our discourses about animals and nature. - ISLE

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Alan Bleakley is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Post-Compulsory Education at Cornwall College.

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