Under Serious Threat: Representations of Predatory Mammals in the Literary Nonfiction of Sid Marty, Charlie Russell and John Vaillant ...

Drawing on the fields of ecocriticism and animal studies, this research engages with three examples of creative nonfiction to examine literary representations of other-than-human beings that are categorized as predators. This thesis examines the treatment of grizzly bears and black bears in Sid Mart...

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Main Author: Emery, Tempest
Format: Master Thesis
Language:English
Published: Graduate Studies 2015
Subjects:
Literature
Literature > Canadian English
Ecocriticism
Predator
Animal Studies
Kamchatka
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/28555
https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/11023/2193
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Literature--Canadian English
Ecocriticism
Predator
Animal Studies
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Literature--Canadian English
Ecocriticism
Predator
Animal Studies
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Under Serious Threat: Representations of Predatory Mammals in the Literary Nonfiction of Sid Marty, Charlie Russell and John Vaillant ...
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Literature--Canadian English
Ecocriticism
Predator
Animal Studies
description Drawing on the fields of ecocriticism and animal studies, this research engages with three examples of creative nonfiction to examine literary representations of other-than-human beings that are categorized as predators. This thesis examines the treatment of grizzly bears and black bears in Sid Marty's The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek, grizzly bears in Charlie Russell's Grizzly Heart: Living Without Fear Among the Brown Bears of Kamchatka, and tigers in John Vaillant's The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. This project investigates the extent to which the concept of the predator is an anthropocentric reflection of human fears and analyzes new forms of ethics and politics regarding the human-bear relationship. It also demonstrates that human and other-than-human beings are more profoundly connected than conventional Western paradigms acknowledge. Reconsidering human perceptions of so-called predators creates opportunities to alter and improve our interactions with them. ...
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title Under Serious Threat: Representations of Predatory Mammals in the Literary Nonfiction of Sid Marty, Charlie Russell and John Vaillant ...
title_short Under Serious Threat: Representations of Predatory Mammals in the Literary Nonfiction of Sid Marty, Charlie Russell and John Vaillant ...
title_full Under Serious Threat: Representations of Predatory Mammals in the Literary Nonfiction of Sid Marty, Charlie Russell and John Vaillant ...
title_fullStr Under Serious Threat: Representations of Predatory Mammals in the Literary Nonfiction of Sid Marty, Charlie Russell and John Vaillant ...
title_full_unstemmed Under Serious Threat: Representations of Predatory Mammals in the Literary Nonfiction of Sid Marty, Charlie Russell and John Vaillant ...
title_sort under serious threat: representations of predatory mammals in the literary nonfiction of sid marty, charlie russell and john vaillant ...
publisher Graduate Studies
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