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Becoming Animal

Teresa Präauer author Kári Driscoll translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd

Publishing:3rd Dec '24

£15.99

This title is due to be published on 3rd December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Becoming Animal cover

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.

ISBN: 9781803093321

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

132 pages