Zoos in Postmodernism

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  • Zoos in Postmodernism Book Detail

  • Author : Stephen Spotte
  • Release Date : 2006
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Genre : Nature
  • Pages : 209
  • ISBN 13 : 083864094X
  • File Size : 48,48 MB

Zoos in Postmodernism by Stephen Spotte PDF Summary

Book Description: "The putative mission of zoos - education and conservation - yield doubtful results, education because its information relies on description and exposition instead of narrative, conservation because only a few large, showy vertebrates receive the most effort. By controlling reproduction and restricting evolution, zoos reduce animals to artifacts - unattached ecological fragments - and ultimately revoke their ontological status as part of the natural world." "Spotte's argument assumes manifestations that impinge on contemporary theories of art, film, literature, photography, and science, the whole anchored securely by the twin poles of semiotics and simulation. This willingness to grapple with high-level theory - and to take intellectual risks - sets Zoos in Postmodernism apart from other treatments of zoos in contemporary western literature."--BOOK JACKET.

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