Chapter 1 Animating Creaturely Life

Chapter 2 Earth Ethics and Creaturely Cohabitation

Chapter 3 An Address from Elsewhere: Vulnerability, Relationality, and Conceptions of Creaturely Embodiment

Chapter 5 Cuts: The Rhythms of “Healing-with” Companion Animals

Chapter 6 A Dog’s Death: Art as a Work of Mourning

Chapter 7 Playing like a Loser

Chapter 8 Storying Creaturely Life

Chapter 9 The Collaborative Craft of Creaturely Writing

Chapter 10 Animals as Signifiers: Re-Reading Michel Foucault’s The Order of Things as a Genealogical Working Tool for Historical Human–Animal Studies

Chapter 11 Reading Seeing: Literary Form, Affect, and the Creaturely Potential of Focalization

Chapter 12 Creaturely Apotheosis: Posthumanist Vulnerability in Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja

Chapter 13 “The Impulse Towards Silence”: Creaturely Expressivity in Beckett and Coetzee

Chapter 14 Fearful Symmetries: Pirandello’s Tiger and the Resistance to Metaphor

Chapter 15 Thinking about Talking about Writing about … “Animals”