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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 2 / 2022  
         
  Article:   BOOK - RUTH HEHOLT; MELISSA EDMUNDSON, GOTHIC ANIMALS: UNCANNY OTHERNESS AND THE ANIMAL WITH-OUT, LONDON: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 2020, 307 P..

Authors:  ANA-MARIA SPÂNU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Available online: 30 June 2022; Available print: 30 June 2022
pp. 409-412

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This Palgrave collection of studies on animals and literature, edited by Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson, brings together a series of cross-disciplinary approaches meant to reconceptualize the relationship between human and non-human literary beings in such a way as to acknowledge the continuum of sentience and affect between them. Ranging from of an analysis of faux documentaries about spectral predators to a diachronic incursion into the universe of American superhero comics, the studies are both rigorous and captivating. The collection as a whole revolves around the “animal turn” in historical, anthropological, philosophical and literary research and on this new momentum within the field of English studies, as I will try to show with reference to a few of the texts included here.
 
         
     
         
         
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