Abstract

ABBREVIATIONS ix CHAPTER ONE: Introduction: The Ancient Quarrel 1 PART ONE: THE LIVES OF ANIMALS 19 CHAPTER TWO: Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Stories, Thought-Experiments, and Literal-Mindedness 21 CHAPTER THREE: Elizabeth Costello's Lecture: Three Philosophers and a Number of Apes 36 CHAPTER FOUR: Food for Thought: Two Symposia 58 CHAPTER FIVE: Food for Thought: A Third Symposium 69 CHAPTER SIX: Food for Thought: An Uninvited Guest? 95 CHAPTER SEVEN: Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Two Poets and a Novelist 110 CHAPTER EIGHT: Elizabeth Costello's Seminar: Primatology and Animal Training, Philosophy and Literary Theory 122 PART TWO: ELIZABETH COSTELLO 137 CHAPTER NINE: Realism, Modernism, and the Novel 139 CHAPTER TEN: Costello's Realist Modernism, and Coetzee's 162 CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Body in Africa 184 CHAPTER TWELVE: Evil as Obscenity 203 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Two Embodiments of the Kafkaesque 214 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Conclusion: Three Postscripts 231 BIBLIOGRAPHY 253 INDEX 257

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