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Borkgren, Allyson.

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I want to be your dog: Intimate human/canine relationships in fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	I want to be your dog: Intimate human/canine relationships in fiction./
Author:	Borkgren, Allyson.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	77 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International54-04(E).
Subject:	Modern literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1588037
ISBN:	9781321728835

I want to be your dog: Intimate human/canine relationships in fiction.
Borkgren, Allyson.

I want to be your dog: Intimate human/canine relationships in fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 77 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 54-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--Western Illinois University, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Cultural theorist Donna Haraway suggests the bond between humans and dogs is a fact of evolution, the result of millennia of adaptations which have made the two "companion species" suited to living side-by-side in a state of "significant otherness." This thesis uses Haraway's descriptions of cross-species connection and communication as a way of viewing literary depictions of human/canine relationships in order to better understand the importance of the pairing. In examining the human/dog relationships represented in three of George Eliot's Victorian social novels, Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), and Felix Holt, The Radical (1866), alongside those found in the postapocalyptic narratives of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954), Harlan Ellison's "A Boy and His Dog" (1969), and Peter Heller's The Dog Stars (2012), the entanglement between species and its positive effect on individual characters' lives becomes apparent. By pairing human characters who have experienced personal loss, social rejection, or widespread tragedy with canine characters with whom they create relationships based on the honesty of non-verbal communication and non-judgmental affection, these authors promote the benefits of the common human/dog association. They uphold these interspecies interactions as they explore the boundaries and meanings of human and animal, ultimately finding the categories and the individuals which embody them to be inseparable. These authors endorse the mutual recognition and responsibility fostered by the human/dog relationship, even using it as a paradigm by which all other associations are measured.

ISBN: 9781321728835Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122750
Modern literature.

I want to be your dog: Intimate human/canine relationships in fiction.
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