Writing Animals (Non-fiction) (55 books)

Writing Animals (Non-fiction)

Non-fiction (primarily related to the field of 'literary animal studies') that deals with non-human animals in *LITERATURE*:

(1) how to **WRITE** about/for non-human animals
(2) how non-human animals are represented in different **LITERARY** contexts (and the resulting ethical implications)

No fiction.

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1	Writing for Animals: New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire by John Yunker (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Animal Biographies: Toward a History of Individuals by Éric Baratay 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Narratology Beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life by David Herman 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals by Dominic O'Key really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Animals in Literary Education: Towards Multispecies Empathy (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series) by John Drew 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines by Susan McHugh (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Writing Animals: Language, Suffering and Animality in Twenty-First Century Fiction by Timothy C. Baker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Human Minds and Animal Stories: How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species by Wojciech Małecki 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy by Danielle Sands 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Animal Narratology by Joela Jacobs (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Animal Writes: Prompts and Practices to Guide the Animal Writer’s Journey by Midge Raymond (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Animal Biography: Re-framing Animal Lives by André Krebber (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Speaking for Animals: Animal Autobiographical Writing by Margo Demello (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity by Sune Borkfelt it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest: Uncanny Encounters by Stacy Hoult 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Animalities: Literary and Cultural Studies Beyond the Human by Michael Lundblad (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Literary Animal Studies in the Anthropocene by Jiang Lifu 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	What Is Zoopoetics?: Texts, Bodies, Entanglement by Kári Driscoll (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture by Dominik Ohrem (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Writing on sheep: Ecology, the animal turn and sheep in poetry by William Welstead 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Writing About Animals in the Age of Revolution by Jane Spencer liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell, the Creation of a Novel, and the Story of Animal Rights by Celia Brayfield 3.20 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	And This Little Piggy Had None; Challenging the Dominant Discourse on Farmed Animals in Children's Picturebooks (Education and Struggle, #16) by Janae Dimick 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Representing Animals by Nigel Rothfels (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Literature and Animal Studies by Mario Ortiz-Robles 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Aesthetics of Care: On the Literary Treatment of Animals by Josephine Donovan (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Rhetorical Animals: Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion by Kristian Bjørkdahl (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis by Sune Borkfelt (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Novel and the Multispecies Soundscape by Ben De Bruyn it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Other Animals in Twenty-First Century Fiction by Catherine Parry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Derrida and Textual Animality: For a Zoogrammatology of Literature by Rodolfo Piskorski liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Environmental and Animal Rights Ethics in Children's Realistic Animal Novels of Twentieth-Century North America: A Dissertation by Lori Jo Oswald 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal by Cary Wolfe 3.73 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Other Nations: Animals in Modern Literature by Tom Regan (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature by Susan McHugh (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Animals as Experiencing Entities: Theories and Historical Narratives (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series) by Michael J. Glover (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature: Over the Fence by Stacy Hoult-Saros it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Representing the Modern Animal in Culture by Ziba Rashidian 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Feline Cultures: Cats Create Their History by Éric Baratay 3.35 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Animal That Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida 4.07 avg rating — 1,057 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives by Dominik Ohrem (editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Poetry and Animals: Blurring the Boundaries with the Human by Onno Oerlemans really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Animals, Literature and the Politics of Representation by John Simons 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Michael Malay (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Animals, Animality, and Literature by Bruce Boehrer (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry by Christopher Kelen 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Livestock and Literature: Reimagining Postanimal Companion Species by Liza Bauer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Thinking Veganism in Literature and Culture: Towards a Vegan Theory by Emelia Quinn (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series) by Michael J. Gilmour really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century by Theophilus Savvas 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Edinburgh Companion to Vegan Literary Studies by Laura Wright (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture by Dominik Ohrem (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Human-Animal Studies: Literature by Margo Demello it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature by David Herman 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 39) by Sherryl Vint 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars