FMHContents
Abbreviations
Chapter One Introduction: The Ancient Quarrel
Part I: The Lives of Animals
Chapter Two Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Stories, Thought-Experiments, and Literal Mindedness
Chapter Three Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Three Philosophers and a Number of Apes
Chapter Four Food for Thought: Two Symposia
Chapter Five Food for Thought: A Third Symposium
Chapter Six Food for Thought: An Uninvited Guest?
Chapter Seven Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Two Poets and a Novelist
Chapter Eight Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Primatology and Animal Training, Philosophy and Literary Theory
Part II: Elizabeth Costello
Chapter Nine Realism, Modernism, and the Novel
Chapter Ten Costello's Realist Modernism, and Coetzee's
Chapter Eleven The Body in Africa
Chapter Twelve Evil as Obscenity
Chapter Thirteen Two Embodiments of the Kafkaesque
Chapter Fourteen Conclusion: Three Postscripts
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Chapter One Introduction: The Ancient Quarrel
Part I: The Lives of Animals
Chapter Two Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Stories, Thought-Experiments, and Literal Mindedness
Chapter Three Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Three Philosophers and a Number of Apes
Chapter Four Food for Thought: Two Symposia
Chapter Five Food for Thought: A Third Symposium
Chapter Six Food for Thought: An Uninvited Guest?
Chapter Seven Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Two Poets and a Novelist
Chapter Eight Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Primatology and Animal Training, Philosophy and Literary Theory
Part II: Elizabeth Costello
Chapter Nine Realism, Modernism, and the Novel
Chapter Ten Costello's Realist Modernism, and Coetzee's
Chapter Eleven The Body in Africa
Chapter Twelve Evil as Obscenity
Chapter Thirteen Two Embodiments of the Kafkaesque
Chapter Fourteen Conclusion: Three Postscripts
Bibliography
Index