Exploring the world of animals : linking fiction to nonfiction

Literature bridges to science series

Literature bridges to science series.

The modern bestiary : animals in English fiction, 1880-1945

Studies in British literature ;

Animals in the American classics : how natural history inspired great fiction

Integrative natural history series

Integrative natural history series.

Animal Analogues and the Character of American Wildlife in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" / "At the same time more and less than a man": The Ourang-Outang in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" / Insects, Metamorphosis, and Poe's "The Gold-Bug" / Whales, Mother Carey's Chickens, and a Heart-Stricken Moose in Herman Melville's MobyDick / Mark Twain's "Jumping Frog": Cartoon Fantasy and Grim Reality in the Animal Kingdom / Learning to Think like an Animal: Pragmatism in Jack London's The Call of the Wild / A "Background Never Stated": Mice, Snakes, Dogs, and Rabbits in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men / High Water and the Limits of Humanity in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God / Faulkner's Animals: Testing the Limits of the Human / Deborah Clarke -- A Natural History of the Blue Marlin in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea / Mad Dogs and Maycomb: Harper Lee's Guide to an Ambiguous South in To Kill a Mockingbird / Gatelamps to Another World: Seeing the Animal in Cormac McCarthy

Creature discomfort : fauna-criticism, ethics, and the representation of animals in Spanish American fiction and poetry

Critical Animal Studies

Critical animal studies.

Open secrets : literature, education, and authority from J-J. Rousseau to J.M. Coetzee

Introduction : the pedagogical circle and the 'open secret' -- Imaginary authority in Rousseau's Emile -- The comedy of educational errors : (A) Sterne's Tristram Shandy and (B) C.M. Wieland's History of Agathon -- Goethe's open secrets : Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship -- Pedagogy, fiction, and the art of renunciation : Wilhelm Meister's journeymanship, or the renunciants -- Nietzsche as educator and the implosion of Bildung -- 'The passion of instruction' : D.H. Lawrence and 'wholeness' versus Bildung -- The importance of being frank : criticism, collaboration, pedagogy in F.R. Leavis -- The novelist, the lecturer, and the limits of persuasion : J.M. Coetzee and Elizabeth Costello on the lives of animals and men.

The ethical case against animal experiments

Book collections on Project MUSE.

Oxford : the home of controversy about animals / Normalizing the unthinkable : the ethics of using animals in research : a report of the working group of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics -- Supporting essays. Animal experimentation in classical antiquity / Gender and the animal experiments controversy in nineteenth century America / Is "necessity" a useful concept in animal research ethics? / Science fiction and science fact : ethics and nonhuman animal experiments / Harms versus benefits : a practical critique of utilitarian calculations / Utilitarian benefit and uncertainty under emergent systems / Do moral principles permit experimenting on nonconsenting beings? / Can animal experiments be ethically acceptable when they are not scientifically defensible? / A Rawlsian case against animal experimentation / Harms of captivity within laboratories and afterward

Narratives of love and loss : studies in modern children's fiction

Narratives of love & loss

Introduction: Deep Structures in Modern Children's Fiction -- Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden -- Narnia: An Imaginary Land as Container of Moral and Emotional Adventure -- Magic Wishes and the Self Explorations of Children: Five Children and It -- The Life of Dolls: Rumer Godden's Understanding of Children's Imaginative Play -- The Maternal Capacities of a Small Boy: The Indian in the Cupboard -- Animals in Reality and Fantasy: Two Stories by Philippa Pearce -- The Poetic Power of Ordinary Speech: E.B. White's Children's Stories -- Who Believes in 'Borrowers'? -- Making Out in America: The Mouse and His Child -- Inner Implications of Extended Traumas: Carrie's War -- Finding Oneself among Strangers: Three Stories by Paula Fox -- Conclusions: Explorations of Loss -- Postscript: The Inner World of Harry Potter.

Econometrics and the philosophy of economics : theory-data confrontations in economics

Facts and Fiction in Econometrics -- The Construction of Social Reality -- The Social Construction of Reality -- Facts and Fiction in Econometrics -- Theorizing in Economics -- Theories and Models -- The Purport of an Economic Theory -- Rationality in Economics -- Topological Artifacts and Life in Large Economies -- Theory-Data Confrontations in Economics -- Rational Animals and Sample Populations -- The Theory Universe -- The Data Universe -- The Bridge Principles -- Data Analyses -- Frequentist Analogues of Priors and Posteriors / On the COLS and CGMM Moment Estimation Methods for Frontier Production Models / Congruence and Encompassing / New Developments in Automatic General-to-Specific Modeling / Empirical Relevance -- Conjectures, Theories, and Their Empirical Relevance -- Probability versus Capacity in Choice under Uncertainty -- Evaluation of Theories and Models / Diagnostics and Scientific Explanation -- Diagnoses and Defaults in Artificial Intelligence and Economics -- Section 20.3 from a Logical Point of View / Explanations of an Empirical Puzzle: What Can Be Learned from a Test of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis? / Scientific Explanation in Economics -- Scientific Explanation in Econometrics: A Case Study / Contemporary Econometric Analyses.

Law and new media : west of everything

Introduction : west of everything / The aesthetics of convivencia : visualising a mode of living together in Al-Andalus / Auriculation / Is Pasteur American? The story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936) : from nineteenth-century laboratory to twentieth-century trials -- a transnational perspective / Souvenir, fiction, imagination : the times of fascism in the Conformist / The law of the father and the order of time : Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter / The litigating dead : zombie jurisprudence in contemporary popular culture / Form of life : how the law became an image / Virtual judges in immigrant detention : the mise-en-scène of no-show justice / Comity, Facebook and the (legal) personality of animals / Moral choices and ethical systems in videogames / Reading law : a beginner's guide to the manual of how to read the book of law yet to come / Registers of gay marriage in new media and law / Kamikaze law : on the aesthetics of the legal war on terror

2015 Pushcart prize XXXIX : best of the small presses

Pushcart Prize XXXIX, 2015

Pushcart Prize 39

Pushcart Prize thirty-nine

Pushcart Prize 2015

The zen thing / What the body knows / Why we must support PBS / Madame Bovary's greyhound / Playing at violence / Winter elders / A tab of iron on the tongue / If it were anyone else / Annie Radcliffe, you are loved / City horse / The ice committee / Breaking it / Monologue during a blackout / Say / Calling all odds / My White House days / Geese / The mother / The news cycle / Approach of the horizon / The fiction writer / Albion / The prospects / My mother told us not to have children / The tower / How to triumph like a girl / Elegies / The last days of the baldock / Your ghost / La pulchra nota / Blue / Visit #1 / Hippies and beats / Pine / Animals / Elegy with a city in it / The unfollowing / How she remembers it / "Too many pigeons to count and one dove" / Mysteries of Thoreau, unsolved / The streetlamp above me darkens / Days of being mild / Like a jet / The dance contest / Mindful / Unwilling / Book of forget / The weirdos / Trim palace / Captcha / Watching a woman on the M101 Express / Black plank / Boy. Child without legs. Getting off a chair / For beds / The hum of Zug Island / By the time you read this / Pigmeat / John Clare / Fables / Mimesis / Waking Luna / Rape joke / Ghazal / Unmoving like a mighty river stilled / Superwhite

Animals and ourselves : essays on connections and blurred boundaries

Introduction / Part I: REPRESENTATONS: IMAGES OF ANIMALS IN MEDIA: Animal/human relations in Two prairie tales by L. Frank Baum / Cultivating conservation: childhood and animalhood in the fiction of Ernest Thompson Seton / Mister Ed, 1960s television and the horse who was not just a horse / Blurred laughter: how Disney and Pixar animated films teach children to laugh like animals / Surprisingly human: producing nonhuman selves for human entertainment / Fargo: morality in the "animal" kingdom / Beautiful cockroaches and featherless birds: anthropomorphism in books for Latinx children / Friend or food? the limits of anthropomorphism at Disney / Part II: RELATIONSHIPS: INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANIMALS: From trauma to trust: the convoluted relationship between Jews and Dogs / No room in the boat? pets vs. people in disaster relief efforts / Mirrored caregiving: chronic illness in the human/animal household / I told the dog first: the delicate relationship between marginalized youth and animals / Japanese people adore their animals / The "soul" of the circus: what animals under the big top continue to teach their audiences / Part III: REFLECTIONS: CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN/ANIMAL BLURRING: From tusk to tail: understanding the animal attraction to college mascots / Body boundaries: animal body adornment, lifestyle holism and cosmetic surgeries / Farewell, Flipper: sending dolphins back to the sea / Horses in hats, frogs in frocks / Animals and the law: persons or property? / The cross-cultural animal: human-animal interactions in American study abroad marketing / Presenting one's self as a furry: what does this mean? / The story of PARO, a robotic harp seal pup

Teaching creative writing : practical approaches

Creative writing studies

Creative writing studies.

Disclaimer -- Series information -- Thematic index -- Foreword -- -- -- 'Who I am' icebreaker: establishing a group dynamic -- -- -- Writing animals -- -- -- Editing fiction: a process for creative critique -- -- -- On warming up, close reading and sentences -- -- -- Travel writing -- from classroom to Khartoum -- -- -- The flexibility of free indirect style -- -- -- The blue chip exercise: defying a single aspect of 'reality' in short fiction -- -- -- Teaching aspects of minimalism: flash and micro fiction -- -- -- Out of solitude: collaborative fiction writing.

-- Being (in)famous: getting into character -- -- -- Make your own manifesto: a playful approach to purposeful writing -- -- -- Yoga on the page: moving into writing -- -- -- Suasoria: arguing for and against a proposition -- -- -- The (bridal) shop of ideas: shortcuts to inspiration -- -- -- Using place in prose -- -- -- Formal verse for the faint-hearted -- -- -- Stylistic modelling: creative engagement with word classes and syntax -- -- -- Working with desire to build plot -- -- -- Poetry out loud: a performance poetry workshop -- -- -- Using Web 2.0 in the creative writing workshop: blogs and wikis.

-- Food writing: mobilising the five senses and personal memories -- -- -- 'Digital lyre': conducting an audio workshop -- -- -- To You or not to You Using second person in prose -- -- -- The paperless workshop: save trees, increase interaction, reduce preciousness -- -- -- Put it on a postcard: capturing the poetic moment in prose -- -- -- Finding a suitable narrative voice when writing for children -- -- -- Writing with Shakespeare and Montaigne: past practices for future writers -- -- -- Earth, Air, Fire and Water: a writing and performance workshop -- -- -- Gift wraps: a collaborative poetry game.

-- Write what you know: fictionalising every day experience -- -- -- Structuring the perfect short story: how to create a strong plot arc -- -- -- Hands-on activities for experimental drama: crafting and directing spectacles -- -- -- Exploring multiple viewpoints to create compelling narratives -- -- -- Teaching the critical reflective essay -- -- -- How to write a bad poem -- -- -- Considering connotation: the impact and implications of language in poetry -- -- -- Whatever!: exploring the 'authentic voice' in young-adult fiction -- -- -- 'Give and take': getting a stage play on its feet.

-- Start where you are: read what you know -- -- -- Writing suspense(fully) -- -- -- Other talents: 'doing creative (writing)' -- -- -- Fascinating rhythm: teaching songwriting -- a multi-modal experience -- -- -- Leaving the comfort zone: against practicality and rationality -- -- -- Flights of fancy: writing from myth -- -- -- Found poetry workshop -- -- -- 30/30 projects: developing a daily writing habit -- -- -- Using guided walks in creative writing: wandering, observing, describing -- -- -- Researching for the fiction writer -- -- -- Writing with the masters: finding creativity in copying.

-- Describing with feeling: evoking style, tone and emotion in script scene directions.