Mosaic (Winnipeg) articles from December 2006

Mosaic (Winnipeg) archives from December 2006

Introduction.(vivisection lab)(Editorial)
December 1, 2006... As I write this Introduction, a longstanding and ongoing debate at the University of Oxford over the ethics of animal vivisection is reported to have reached unprecedented intensity. This debate has two sides: on the one are proponents of a new...

Rachel Rosenthal is an animal.(Interview)
December 1, 2006... Animality is at the core of much of Rachel Rosenthal's performance art and painting. Looking to the work of Rosenthal (as well as Plato, Shakespeare, Rauschenberg, and others), this essay is an attempt to understand the intricate relationships...

Why write a poem about elephants?(South African poems )
December 1, 2006... A close reading of selected Southern African poems about elephants provides a window onto interdisciplinary readings of southern African ecocritical issues generally, involving three interlocking aspects: local ecological realities, especially...

Taming the beast: the other tradition in political theory.
December 1, 2006... Throughout the history of Western metaphysics, the figure of the beast has been excluded from the realms of the thinkable and the doable, even as it constituted these realms. This essay aims to outline the trajectory of such exclusion and to...

Nietzsche's animal menagerie: lessons in deep ecology.(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... By way of a philosophical examination of select animal images from Nietzsche's animal menagerie, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, this essay develops the thesis that Nietzsche's animal images provide lessons in deep ecology insofar as they serve to move...

"The bears are plentiful and frequently good camera subjects": postcards and the framing of interspecies encounters in the Canadian Rockies.
December 1, 2006... The following essay considers the role of animal imagery on postcards marketed in Canada's Rocky Mountain Parks. These popular souvenir items have helped shape dominant systems of environmental knowledge. Because of this, postcards should be...

An ecocritical approach to Horacio Quiroga's "Anaconda" and "Regreso de Anaconda".
December 1, 2006... This essay studies the two sister tales "Anaconda" and "Regreso de Anaconda" by Horacio Quiroga using an ecocritical approach. By questioning specifically the anthropomorphization of the animal protagonists, the essay illuminates ecocritical...

Animal signs and ethical significance: expressive creatures in the British georgic.
December 1, 2006... This essay locates in eighteenth-century georgic poetry an attention to zoosemiotics, which interrupts the logocentric practice of making the animal's ostensible silence grounds for ethical exclusion, and anticipates recent ethological studies...

Dog gambit: shifting the species boundary in J.M. Coetzee's recent fiction.(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... This paper considers how J.M. Coetzee's recent work unsettles deep-seated beliefs regarding humans' relations with nonhuman animals and, by extension, upsets boundaries placed between human-as-other and animal-as-other. The texts under scrutiny...

"Poor creatures": Ishiguro's and Coetzee's imaginary animals.(Kazuo Ishiguro, J.M. Coetzee)(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... This essay reads J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go with reference to the Lacanian distinction between humans and animals, such that humans are exiled from the instinctual realm governing the meanings of sex and death,...

The physics and metaphysics of caging: the animal in late-nineteenth-century American culture.
December 1, 2006... Darwinian thought changed how human interiority--the architecture of the self--was imagined. Frank Norris and Jack London, two American naturalist authors, represented human interiority through a metaphysics of caging, in which an animal was...

Part spaniel, part canine puzzle: anthropomorphism in Woolf's Flush and Auster's Timbuktu.(Virginia Woolf, Flush: A Biography, Paul Auster)(Critical essay)
December 1, 2006... An exploration of traditional and "new" literary anthropomorphism and the fascination, problems, and limitations of imagining "being animal," this essay presents a contrasting analysis of canine constructs and their complex narrative fabrics of...

"You are not Beppo": Elizabeth Bishop's animals and negotiation of identity.
December 1, 2006... To rethink the animal is to rethink the human. This tenet, supported by an interdisciplinary consideration of animal/human relations, informs an examination of how the representation of animals in Elizabeth Bishop's writings contributes to a...