Claire Charlotte McKechnie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6682924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Charlotte McKechnie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | McKechnie |
| SIGNATURE | MCKECHNIE C C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Anxieties of communication
This paper aims to provide an initial response to Angela Woods's endeavour to ‘(re)ignite critical debates around this topic’ in her recent essay ‘The limits of narrative: provocations for the medical humanities’ ( Medical Humanities 2011). Woods's essay challenges the validity of the notion of the narrative self through her discussion and use of Galen Strawson's seminal ‘Against narrativity’ (2004). To some extent in dialogue with Woods, this ar…
Victorian Animals
In 2000 the atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and the ecologist Eugene Stoermer argued that for the last 200 years or so we have been living in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.1This neologi
Spiders, Horror, and Animal Others in Late Victorian Empire Fiction
By the 1850s, the representation of the spider in Victorian natural history was beginning to change. No longer associated solely with ingenuity and industry, the spider took on more disturbing connotations in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Unable to pin down the creature's precise rhetorical and metaphorical function, naturalists could not decide whether the spider ought to be loved or feared and at the same time the spider began to e…
Spiders, Horror, and Animal Others in Late Victorian Empire Fiction
By the 1850s, the representation of the spider in Victorian natural history was beginning to change. No longer associated solely with ingenuity and industry, the spider took on more disturbing connotations in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Unable to pin down the creature's precise rhetorical and metaphorical function, naturalists could not decide whether the spider ought to be loved or feared and at the same time the spider began to e…
Victorian Animals
In 2000 the atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and the ecologist Eugene Stoermer argued that for the last 200 years or so we have been living in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.1This neologi
Spiders, Horror, and Animal Others in Late Victorian Empire Fiction
By the 1850s, the representation of the spider in Victorian natural history was beginning to change. No longer associated solely with ingenuity and industry, the spider took on more disturbing connotations in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Unable to pin down the creature's precise rhetorical and metaphorical function, naturalists could not decide whether the spider ought to be loved or feared and at the same time the spider began to e…
Anxieties of communication
This paper aims to provide an initial response to Angela Woods's endeavour to ‘(re)ignite critical debates around this topic’ in her recent essay ‘The limits of narrative: provocations for the medical humanities’ ( Medical Humanities 2011). Woods's essay challenges the validity of the notion of the narrative self through her discussion and use of Galen Strawson's seminal ‘Against narrativity’ (2004). To some extent in dialogue with Woods, this ar…
History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adventure (1 work) · Alien (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work)