Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature write by S.K. Robisch. This book was released on 2009-05-28. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art, and psychology. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf’s importance as a figure in literature from the perspectives of both the animal’s physical reality and the ways in which writers imagine and portray it. Author S. K. Robisch examines more than two hundred texts written in North America about wolves or including them as central figures. From this foundation, he demonstrates the wolf’s role as an archetype in the collective unconscious, its importance in our national culture, and its ecological value. Robisch takes a multidisciplinary approach to his study, employing a broad range of sources: myths and legends from around the world; symbology; classic and popular literature; films; the work of scientists in a number of disciplines; human psychology; and field work conducted by himself and others. By combining the fundamentals of scientific study with close readings of wide-ranging literary texts, Robisch astutely analyzes the correlation between actual, living wolves and their representation on the page and in the human mind. He also considers the relationship between literary art and the natural world, and argues for a new approach to literary study, an ecocriticism that moves beyond anthropocentrism to examine the complicated relationship between humans and nature.
The Wolf
The Wolf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wolf write by Ian Convery. This book was released on 2023-07-18. The Wolf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New insights into the changing human attitudes towards wild nature through the depiction of wolves in human culture and heritage. Few animals arouse such strong opinion as the wolf. It occupies a contested, ambiguous, yet central role in human culture and heritage. It appears as both an inspirational emblem of the wild and an embodiment of evil. Offering a mirror to different human attitudes, beliefs, and values, the wolf is, arguably, the species that plays the greatest role in shaping our views on what nature is or should be. North America and, more recently, Europe have witnessed a remarkable return of the grey wolf (Canis lupus, and its close relative the Eurasian wolf, Canis lupus lupus) to eco-systems. The essays collected here explore aspects of this recovery, and consider the history, literature and myth surrounding this iconic species. There are chapters on wolf taxonomy, including the coywolf, the red wolf, and the many faces of the dingo. We also meet the Tasmanian wolf and encounter Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space. The book explores the challenges of separating fact from fiction and superstition, and our willingness to co-exist with large carnivores in the twenty-first century. Biologists, historians, anthropologists, cultural theorists, conservationists and museologists will all find riches in the detail presented in this wolf collection.
Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film
Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film write by Carmen A. Serrano. This book was released on 2019. Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided Latin American authors with a way to critique a number of issues, including colonization, authoritarianism, feudalism, and patriarchy. The book includes a literary history of the European Gothic to demonstrate how Latin American authors have incorporated its characteristics but also how they have broken away or inverted some elements, such as traditional plot lines, to suit their work and address a unique set of issues. The book examines both the modernistas of the nineteenth century and the avant-garde writers of the twentieth century, including Huidobro, Bombal, Rulfo, Roa Bastos, and Fuentes. Looking at the Gothic in Latin American literature and film, this book is a groundbreaking study that brings a fresh perspective to Latin American creative culture.
Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King
Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King write by Debbie Olson. This book was released on 2020-10-06. Children and Childhood in the Works of Stephen King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent publications. King’s use of child characters within the framework of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child agency, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through which to examine American culture, including both adult and social anxieties about children and childhood across the decades of King’s works.
The Hidden Life of Wolves
The Hidden Life of Wolves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden Life of Wolves write by Jim Dutcher. This book was released on 2013. The Hidden Life of Wolves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A photographic tribute to the authors' work as wolf caregivers and advocates documents their efforts with the Sawtooth Pack in Idaho and features a passionate argument for reintroducing and protecting wild wolves.
