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What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity argues that nonhuman animals, and stories about them, have always been closely bound up with the conceptual and material work of modernity. In the first half of the book, Philip Armstrong examines the function of animals and animal representations in four classic narratives: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Frankenstein and Moby-Dick. He then goes on to explore how these stories have been re-worked, in ways that reflect shifting social and environmental forces, by later novelists, including H.G. Wells, Upton Sinclair, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Brigid Brophy, Bernard Malamud, Timothy Findley, Will Self, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel and J.M. Coetzee.What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity also introduces readers to new developments in the study of human-animal relations. It does so by attending both to the significance of animals to humans, and to animals’ own purposes or designs; to what animals mean to us, and to what they mean to do, and how they mean to live.--publisher.

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Over 30 years after Maurice Blanchot writes 'The Unavowable Community' - a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on 'the inoperative community.' Nancy responds in turn with 'The Disavowed Community.' Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly's initial proposal to think community in terms of 'number' or the 'numerous,' and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot's text, Nancy's new book addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot's thinking, from Bataille's 'community of lovers' to the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; to Marguerite Duras, to the Eucharist.

Communities. --- Communitarianism. --- Blanchot, Maurice.