Literature and Society: Capturing Animals

Course Texts

Bakis, Kirsten. The Lives of the Monster Dogs: A Novel . New York: Time Warner, 1997.
Coetzee, J.M. The Lives of Animals . Princeton UP, 1999.
Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace . New York: Penguin Books, 1999.
Fudge, Erica. Animal . London: Reaktion Books, 2002.
Gowdy, Barbara. White Bone: A Novel . New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
Haraway, Donna. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness . Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.
Hearne, Vicki. Adam's Task: Calling Animals by Name . Pleasantville, NY: Akadine Press, 2000.
Hess, Elizabeth. Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats, and Everyday Heroes at a Country Animal Shelter . New York: Harcourt, 1998.
Høeg, Peter. The Woman and the Ape . Trans. Barbara Haveland. NY: Penguin, 1997.
New York: Crown, 198l.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Books . (1894-1895) New York: Signet Classics, 2005.
Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty . (1877)
Siebert, Charles. Angus: A Memoir . New York: Crown Publishers, 2000.
Wells, H. G. The Island of Doctor Moreau . (1896) New York: Bantam Classics, 1994.

Karla Armbruster. “'Good Dog': The Stories We Tell about Our Canine Companions and What They Mean for Humans and Other Animals.” Papers on Language and Literature . 38.4 (2002): 351-76.
John Berger, “Why Look at Animals?” In About Looking . New York: Pantheon Books, 1980: 1-26.
Franz Kafka. “A Report to the Academy.” In Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories . Ed. Nahum N. Glatzer. New York: Schocken Books: 250-59.
Susan McHugh, “Timeline of the Dog.” Dog . London: Reaktion Books, 2004: 200-201.
George Orwell, “Death of an Elephant” (Course Pack)
Debra Pughe, “Being in Dog Time,” forthcoming in Bark .
Clinton R. Sanders. “Killing with Kindness: Veterinary Euthanasia and the Social Construction of Personhood.” Sociological Forum 10.2 (1995): 195-214.
Charles Siebert, “What Does an Aging Chimp Do When His Working Days Are Done?” New York Times Magazine . July 24, 2005: 28-36, 61-63 (Course Pack)