The Cultural Lives of Greyhounds
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| 总结: | XIX, 348 p. 39 illus. in color. text |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2025.
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| 版: | 1st ed. 2025. |
| 丛编: | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature,
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| 在线阅读: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78995-3 |
| 格式: | 电子 电子书 |
书本目录:
- 1. Introduction: Ghost Dogs
- 2. Wind Hound: greyhound as metaphor
- 3. Daphne’s Dog (Metamorphosis 1)
- 4. Diana’s Hounds (Metamorphosis 2)
- 5. Edge of the Wood: Uccello’s ‘The Hunt in the Forest’
- 6. Fleeting Thoughts: the language of coursing
- 7. ‘Hector’s a Greyhound’: Shakespeare’s favourite dog
- 8. ‘All that leaps and runs’: Romantic pursuits
- 9. Chiens d’utilité/ Chiens de luxe: the changing status of le lévrier
- 10. ‘Le lévrier, c’est moi’: identity and the modern dog
- 11. The Long Dogs go to War: conflict as sport
- 12. ‘Un facio di frecce’: D’Annunzio’s decadent pack
- 13. Coursing Costumes and Deco Dianas
- 14. Cuchulain’s Breed: legends of the Celtic hound
- 15. ‘Ascot it wasn’t’: victors and victims of the Irish track
- 16. Born to Lose: comic results
- 17. The Last Cockney: London says farewell
- 18. ‘Gelert’s dying yell’: saviour and survivor.