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Becoming Animal

Becoming Animal

Präauer, Teresa
Driscoll, Kári

Hardcover

Series: German List

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral AnimalsGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $21.00

ISBN10: 1803093323
ISBN13: 9781803093321
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: Dec 23 2024
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
An unveiling of the presence of captivating figures and creatures throughout history.

In this gripping philosophical and cultural exploration, Teresa Präauer sets out to investigate figures of transformation, transmission, and translation--across languages, cultures, genres, media, species, and spaces. Hybrids, chimeras, monsters, and liminal creatures of all sorts inhabit these pages, as indeed they do the pages of the cultural archive from Antiquity and the Middle Ages to the present day: everything from the harpies, ape-men, and cynocephali that inhabit the edges of medieval maps and taxonomies to the Krampuses and Furries that roam through Alpine villages and convention centers today. Yet these chimeras are not aberrations; rather, they reveal an essential truth about culture and artistic expression.

What emerges in Becoming Animal is a kaleidoscopic image of culture as the constant probing of the limits of the sayable, as an unending process of attempting to capture in words and symbols that which cannot be pinned down.

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