TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pettman,Dominic
TI  - Creaturely love: how desire makes us more and less than human 
T2  - Posthumanities
SN  - 9781517901202 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - BD436 .P424 2017
U1  - 128/.46 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Love
KW  - Desire
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152) and index; On the stupidity of oysters Divining creaturely love Horsing around: the marriage blanc of Nietzsche, Andreas-Salomø, and Røe Groping for an opening: Rilke between animal and angel Electric caresses:Rilke, Balthus, and Mitsou Between perfection and temptation: Musil, Claudine, and Veronica The biological travesty "The creature whom we love": Proust and jealousy The love tone: capture and captivation "The soft word that comes deceiving": Fournival's bestiary of love The cuckold and the cockatrice: Fourier and Hazlitt The animal bride and horny toads Unsettled being: Ovid's metamorphoses Fickle metaphysics Nymphomania and faunication Senseless arabesques: Wendy and Lucy The goat in the machine (a reprise) On cetaceous maidens Animal magnetism and alternative currents (or Tesla and the white dove)
ER  -