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ANIMAL VISIONS - SUSAN MARY PYKE GEBUNDEN

Animal Visions considers how literature responds to the harms of anthropocentricism  working
with Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) and various adaptations of this canonistic novel
to show how posthumanist dream writing unsettles the privileging of the human species over
other species. Two feminist and post-Freudian responses  Kathy Acker's poem Obsession (1992)
and Anne Carson's The Glass Essay (1997) most strongly extend Brontë's dream writing in this
direction. Building on the trope of a ludic Cathy ghost who refuses the containment of logic
and reason  these and other adaptations offer the gift of a radical peri-hysteria. This
emotional excess is most clearly seen in Kate Bush's music video Wuthering Heights (1978) and
Peter Kosminsky's film Wuthering Heights (1992). Such disturbances make space for a moor love
that is particularly evident in Jane Urquhart's novel Changing Heaven (1989) and  to a lesser
extent Sylvia Plath's poem  Wuthering Heights (1961). Brontë's Wuthering Heights and its most
productive afterings make space for co-affective relations between humans and other animal
beings. Andrea Arnold's film Wuthering Heights (2011) and Luis Buñuel's Abismos de Pasión
(1954) also highlight the rupturing split gaze of non-acting animals in their films. In all of
these works depictions of intra-active and entangled responses between animals show the
potential for dynamic and generative multispecies relations  where the human is one animal
amongst the kin of the world.

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