What Is Zoopoetics?

1. Introduction: What Is Zoopoetics?
Kári Driscoll, Eva Hoffmann

2. Prelude: I Observe with My Pen
Marcel Beyer

Part I. Texts

3. Hunting Narratives: Capturing the Lives of Animals
Nicolas Picard

4. “You Cannot Escape Your Moles”: The Becoming-Animal of Günter Eich’s Late Literary Texts
Belinda Kleinhans

5. The Grammar of Zoopoetics: Human and Canine Language Play
Joela Jacobs

6. “‘Sire,’ says the fox”: The Zoopoetics and Zoopolitics of the Fable in Kleist’s “On the Gradual Production of Thoughts whilst Speaking”
Sebastian Schönbeck

Part II. Bodies

7. The Light That Therefore I Give (to): Paleonymy and Animal Supplementarity in Clarice Lispector’s The Apple in the Dark

Rodolfo Piskorski

8. “Constituents of a Chaos”: Whale Bodies and the Zoopoetics of Moby-Dick

Michaela Castellanos

9. Queering the Interspecies Encounter: Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Eva Hoffmann

10. Myth, Absence, Haunting: Toward a Zoopoetics of Extinction
Paul Sheehan

Part III. Entanglement

11. Spinning Theory: Three Figures of Arachnopoetics
Matthias Preuss

12. Impersonal Love: Nightwood’s Poetics of Mournful Entanglement
Peter J. Meedom

13. Between Encounter and Release: Animal Presences in Two Contemporary American Poems
Ann Marie Thornburg

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Catherine Clover

15. Coda: Speaking, Reading, Writing
Marcel Beyer

Keywords: Literature, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Moral Philosophy