Preface—Anna Barcz and Dorota Łagodzka IX
Acknowledgements XVII
Notes on Contributors XVIII
Part 1
Correlation in Arts: Theory and Practice of Art towards Nonhuman Animals
Between Philology and Biology: Animal Music and Its Epistemological and Methodological Framework 3
Martin Ullrich
Human and Animal Portraits, or the Issue of Similarity after Darwin 13
Anna Barcz
Animal Art Exhibitions in Poland from the Late 1990s to the Present Day 29
Dorota &agodzka
Part 2
Canine as a Framework
Contact Zones—Where Dogs and Humans Meet: Dog-Human Metamorphoses in Contemporary Art 53
Jessica Ullrich
Renaissance Humanists and Their Dogs 69
Piotr Urba&ski
My Dog and Literary “Translation” Criticism (The Subjectivity of the Dog in Flush by Virginia Woolf and Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka) 94
Oksana Weretiuk
“We Stretch Our Limits and Change Our Lives”: Interspecies Communication in Contemporary American Pet Memoirs 105
Ma&gorzata Rutkowska
Bodily Encounters with the Animal: the Dog and His/Her Human—Who Are They? 125
Monika Rogowska-Stangret
Thalia Field’s Posthumanist “Ecology of Questions” in Bird Lovers, Backyard 139
Ma&gorzata Myk
From Species (Co-)Existence to Species (Co-)Evolution: Neo-Darwinian Concepts in the Literary Works of Anna Świrszczyńska and Anna Nasiłowska 154
Anna Filipowicz
Part 4
Human and Nonhuman Animal Postmodernity
Postmodern Breed: the Crisis of Breed as a Master Narrative of the Dog World 173
Justyna W&odarczyk
People Like Animals? The Significance of Animal Threads in the Post-Apocalyptic World in The Last of Us 191
Bart&omiej Szleszy&ski
Rewilding and Moral Conflicts: Ethics in the Aftermath of Successful Environmental Protection 201
Mateusz Tokarski
Part 5
Philosophy in Quest for Nonhuman Animals
Political Nonhuman Animal Voices: Rethinking Language and Politics with Nonhuman Animals 221
Eva Meijer
Amadeusz Just
Animal Language and Human Discourse 253
Krystian Marcin Gr&dz
Index of Names 267
Index of Subjects 273