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Insects in Literature and the Arts.
Title:
Insects in Literature and the Arts.
Author:
Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.
ISBN:
9783035264777
Physical Description:
1 online resource (260 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Table of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (Laurence Talairach-Vielmas & Marie Bouchet) -- Des scarabées et des hommes. Histoire des coléoptères de l'Égypte ancienne à nos jours (Yves Cambefort) -- Coléoptères 'préhistoriques' -- Scarabées d'Égypte -- Les espèces et leurs noms -- Biologie des scarabées -- Le cycle du soleil -- Mort et résurrection -- L'Orient et la Grèce antique -- La Renaissance -- Dans les marges de Dürer -- Adages et Emblèmes -- L'Époque classique (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles) -- Natures mortes -- Cabinets de curiosités -- Peintres et entomologistes -- Les Temps modernes (XIXe-XXIe siècles) -- L'Entomologie comme 'art' -- L'Entomologie comme 'science' -- Entomologie et littérature -- Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915) -- Franz Kafka (1883-1924) -- Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) -- Kôbô Abé (1924-1993) -- Coléoptères, arts et croyances au XXIe siècle -- Références -- Le Maître du codex Cocharelli. Enlumineur et pionnier dans l'observation des insectes (Colette Bitsch) -- Présentation du manuscrit -- Additional 28841 -- Composition du décor -- Identification et diversité des insectes -- Egerton 3127 et Egerton 3781 -- Le recto du folio 2 de Egerton 3127 -- Egerton 3127 (f. 1, verso f. 2) et le verso de Egerton 3781 -- L'Artiste, la nature et l'entomologie -- Imprégné de Zoologie aristotélicienne -- Regard précoce d'entomologiste -- Liberté de regard anticipant la Renaissance -- Marginalia et savoirs -- Une histoire naturelle transcrite en images -- Les insectes ailés : des merveilles célébrant le Créateur -- Remerciements -- Références -- Nabokov's Text under the Microscope. Textual Practices of Detail in his Lepidopterological and Fictional Writings (Marie Bouchet) -- References -- A Way of Seeing. From Eleanor Ormerod's Injurious Insects to Virginia Woolf's Butterflies (Catherine Lanone).

References -- 'The Hanged Man and the Dragonfly'. Aquatic Insects and Metamorphosis in the Works of Ted Hughes (Yvonne Reddick) -- References -- Love, Cannibalism, and the Sacred. Roger Caillois and the Myth of the Praying Mantis (Romi S. Mukherjee) -- Introduction: The Woman in the Green Dress -- The Ideogram: Lyricism, Sensation, Affect -- The Myth of the Mantis, the Mantis as Myth -- Mimicry, Mysticism, and Wretched Phyllidae -- Mantis Politics -- Conclusion: 'All odds are in favour of continuity' -- References -- Fusion et confusion. L'homme-insecte dans The Fly de David Cronenberg (Patricia Paillot) -- Références -- Filmographie -- Detectives, Beetles and Scientists. 'A Pin, a Cork, and a Card, and We Add Him to the Baker Street Collection' (Hélène Machinal) -- An Age of Transition -- The Scientist and the Detective: Matter and the Mind -- The Beetle, the Detective and the Book -- References -- Ants on Hollywood Screens. Monstrous Mutations and Projected Fears (Them! and Phase IV) (Gilles Menegaldo) -- Them!: A Prototype of 1950s 'Invasion Movies' -- The Revenge of Nature in the 1970s -- Comparative Analysis -- References -- Filmography -- Beeing and Time. A Kiss of Chemoreception, A Taste of Trophallaxis (and the Bug in Dasein's Mouth) (Virgil W. Brower) -- References -- Insects and Texts. Worlds Apart? (Wendy Harding) -- References -- Entomology Cabinet. A Poet's Collection (Anne Mccrary Sullivan) -- Lubbers Mating -- butterfly [balancing] -- Mud Dauber -- Government of Butterflies -- Education of An Island Ecologist -- Dragonfly -- Old Resin -- Blood Meal -- Pahayokee -- through the night -- Index -- Contributors.
Abstract:
This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint. The contributions illustrate the various responses to the insect world that have developed over centuries, concentrating upon the alien qualities of insects - a radical otherness that has provoked admiration and fear, or contributed to the debates over humans' superiority over animals, especially during the evolutionary theory controversy, or in today's ecological debates. Insects not only helped shape new discourses on nature and on the natural world, but their literary and artistic representations also reveal how humans relate to their environment.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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