Metaphor, Animals, Modernism

This book explores what animal metaphors bring into literature, addressing persistent criticism against figurativity in general as well as metaphor within the field of literary animal studies. It does so through a theorization of metaphor and through careful analyses of three modernist works that abound with animals who are easily overlooked, but whose figurative significations prove essential to their texts once they are studied. The study is informed by a transdisciplinary perspective, primarily influenced by animal studies, deconstruction, and tropology, while also drawing upon biology and zoology.