TY - BOOK AU - Norris,Margot ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence SN - 9781421430263 AV - PN56.M25 N67 1985 U1 - 809/.93384 19 KW - Hemingway, Ernest, KW - Lawrence, D. H. KW - Ernst, Max, KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, KW - Kafka, Franz, KW - Darwin, Charles, KW - Psychoanalysis and literature KW - Literature and science KW - Art, Modern KW - 20th century KW - Mimesis in literature KW - Animals in literature KW - Anthropomorphism KW - Human beings KW - Animal nature KW - Comparative literature KW - Themes, motives KW - Literature, Modern KW - History and criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast KW - Electronic books. KW - lcgft KW - local N1 - Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press, 1985; Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index; 1. Introduction: The biocentric tradition -- 2. Darwin's reading of nature -- 3. Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, and the problem of mimesis -- 5. Nietzsche's Ecce homo: Behold the beast -- 6. Kafka's "Josefine": The animal as the negative site of narration -- 7. Max Ernst: The rhetorical beast of the visual arts -- 8. The ontology of D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr -- 9. The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. Conclusion: The biocentric tradition in context; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/69483/ ER -