Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
137
result(s) for
"Apes Fiction."
Sort by:
The escape of Marvin the ape
Marvin the ape slips out of the zoo and finds he likes it on the outside, where he easily blends into city lifestyles.
Book
Literary Primatology
This article aims at defining the field of literary primatology and illustrating the main forms it has taken in Anglophone literatures in the twenty-first century. The article is organized around five sections. The first one introduces the term literary primatology. The second portrays the cultural background against which this field emerged. The third describes its main themes and illustrates them by bringing to the fore significant literary works produced in the twenty-first century. The fourth looks at examples of ape imaginings. Finally, I enumerate some of the unifying characteristics of these narratives and explain literary primatology as one of the responses to today’s Anthropocene anxiety and the feeling of grief or solastalgia for a dying planet.
Este artículo pretende definir el campo de la primatología literaria e ilustrar las principales formas que ha adquirido en las literaturas anglófonas del siglo XXI. El artículo está organizado en torno a cinco secciones. La primera introduce el término primatología literaria. La segunda retrata el contexto cultural a partir del cual surgió este campo. La tercera describe sus temas principales y los ilustra a través de obras literarias significativas producidas en el siglo XXI. La cuarta explora algunas respuestas de la imaginación humana sobre los simios. Finalmente, enumero una serie de características unificadoras de todas ellas y explico la primatología literaria como una de las respuestas a la ansiedad del Antropoceno y al sentimiento de pesar o solastalgia por un planeta que agoniza.
Journal Article
Grumpy monkey play all day
Jim Panzee learns that too much of anything, including having fun, has its downsides.
CHILDBOOK
White Diaspora
This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms \"homelessness.\" In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges.
In novels as disparate asTarzan(written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright'sNative Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora.
Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: \"the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue\" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters.
eBook
More caps for sale : another tale of mischievous monkeys
\"In this sequel to the classic Caps for Sale, the cap peddler returns and is faced with a band of mischievous monkeys who mimic his every move\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Primate Visionary: Peter Dickinson’s Eva and the Environmental Uncanny
Peter Dickinson’s YA novel Eva is thematically concerned with the bioethics of the posthuman in an age of ecological catastrophe. Eva also in many ways exemplifies the new materialist challenge to species ontologies, not least in its affirmation of how transspecies neuroplasticity undoes ontological divisions between humans and apes and so destabilizes taxonomy and selfhood. But Eva also demonstrates, in its visionary placement of the human within the nonhuman and subsequent meditation upon the complexities of symbiogenetic form, that the most effective YA speculative fiction engaging ecological catastrophe and its impact on the adolescent body may have to do so by engaging an environmental uncanny whose “interventions” (Ghosh, 31) of the nonhuman confound conventional strategies of representation.
Journal Article
Gorillas in our midst
Reveals that gorillas, those masters of disguise and experts at hiding, are all around us and invites the reader to seek gorillas of all ages in the illustrations, while carrying a banana just in case.
Book
Understanding and the Facts
If understanding is factive, the propositions that express an understanding are true. I argue that a factive conception of understanding is unduly restrictive. It neither reflects our practices in ascribing understanding nor does justice to contemporary science. For science uses idealizations and models that do not mirror the facts. Strictly speaking, they are false. By appeal to exemplification, I devise a more generous, flexible conception of understanding that accommodates science, reflects our practices, and shows a sufficient but not slavish sensitivity to the facts.
Journal Article
Playtime?
Using illustrations and only two words, shows the trouble a young boy has trying to get his very playful pet gorilla to go to bed.
Book