Canis Modernis by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick

Canis Modernis by Karalyn Kendall-Morwick

Examines the human-dog relationship in modernist literature, analyzing works by Jack London, Virginia Woolf, Albert Payson Terhune, J. R. Ackerley, Samuel Beckett, and others to show how dogs challenge the autonomy of the human subject and the humanistic underpinnings of traditional literary forms.

“Clearly written and grounded in both literary theory and animal studies, this work makes a substantial contribution to the literature of both disciplines”

—R. D. Morrison Choice

“A long-overdue, definitive statement about the importance of dogs in modernist literary fictions by a rising star of a new generation in literary animal studies. Starting from the observation that ‘dogs populate a range of modernist texts yet remain notably absent from critical accounts of the period,’ it fills a tremendous gap in understandings of how and why literary representations both reflect and influence the conceptual crisis of humanism that comes to a head in the twentieth century.”

—Susan McHugh, author of Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction

“[An] engaging monograph that marks out a new territory it calls ‘literary canine studies.’ Reading dog stories (fictional and non-). . . Kendall-Morwick makes a convincing case for dogs’ crucial influence on understandings of human origins, literary character, urban modernity, and the ethics of otherness in Anglo-American modernism.”

—Caroline Hovanec Journal of Modern Literature

Karalyn Kendall-Morwick is Associate Professor of English at Washburn University.

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ISBN 13	9780271088037
ISBN 10	0271088036
Title	Canis Modernis
Author	Karalyn Kendall-Morwick
Series	Animalibus
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2022-12-06
Number of pages	216
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