Contact Zones Fur, Minerals, Milk, and Other Things

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It offers strategies for writing the companions of our humanity. Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines, we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Leet, Elizabeth S. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland 2022.
Edición:1st ed. 2022.
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Writing companions: Toward a critical entanglement with the more-than-human world, Elizabeth S. Leet
  • Human and insect bookworms, Emma Maggie Solberg
  • Francis's animal brotherhood in Thomas of Celano's Vita Prima, Brandon Alakas & Day Bulger
  • Reading the medieval fur experience: Peire Vidal and the poverty of Pelletiers, Sarah-Grace Heller
  • Becoming object/becoming queen: the marital contact zone in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, Elizabeth S. Leet
  • 'Do not allow an empty goblet to face the moon': lyrical materialities in the drinking poems of Li Bai 李白(701-762) and Du Fu 杜甫 (712-770), Elizabeth Harper
  • Jahāngīrī portrait shasts: Material-discursive practices and visuality at the Mughal court, Krista Hall Gulbransen
  • The hungry monk: Bernard of Clairvaux in a trans-corporeal landscape, Melanie Holcomb
  • 'Skin black and wrinkled': The toxic ecology of the Sibyl's cave, Alan S. Montroso
  • 'De aymant en dyamant': Lexical transmutations in the works of Philippe de Mézières, Julie Singer
  • Drink up! Losing yourself in the contact zone, Stacy Alaimo
  • Posthumanism and the claim to rational action, Karl Steel.