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Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Fiction --- Literature --- History --- cultuur --- literatuur --- literatuurgeschiedenis --- fantasie (verbeelding) --- anno 1900-1999

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Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities. Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (2022). Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator of the Centre for Studies of Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and general editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.

General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Literature --- literatuur --- milieutechnologie --- anno 1900-1999

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Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond.

Human-animal relationships in literature. --- Slaughtering and slaughter-houses. --- Empathy in literature. --- Abattoirs --- Butchering --- Meat industry and trade --- Public institutions --- Fiction. --- Literature, Modern --- Space. --- Culture. --- Literature --- Animal welfare --- Cognition in animals. --- Fiction Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Space and Place in Culture. --- Literary History. --- Animal Ethics. --- Animal Cognition. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- History and criticism. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Animal cognition --- Animal intelligence --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Metaphysics --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Novelists --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Animals in literature. --- Slaughtering and slaughter-houses --- In literature. --- Social aspects.