By Professor Chris Danta

Books

Danta C, 2018, Animal Fables after Darwin: Literature, Speciesism, and Metaphor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108552394

Danta C; Groth H, 2013, Introduction: Between Minds

, 2012, The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period, Cousins AD; Napton D; Russo S, (eds.), Peter Lang US, http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4539-0241-7

Danta C, 2011, INTRODUCTION: J. M. Coetzee: The Janus Face of Authority

Danta C, 2011, Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot, Bloomsbury, New York

Book Chapters

Danta C, 2021, 'Scaling Down Our Imagination of the Human: Ted Chiang and the Fable of Extinction', in Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives, Bloomsbury Academic, New York, pp. 41 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350121669.0009

Danta C, 2014, 'Derrida and the Test of Secrecy', in Interpreting Abraham: Journeys to Moriah, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, pp. 187 - 209

Danta C; Groth H, 2014, 'Introduction: Between Minds', in Danta C; Groth H (ed.), Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind, Bloomsbury, New York, pp. 1 - 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472543707

Danta C, 2013, 'Animal Bachelors and Animal Brides: Fabulous Metamorphosis in Kafka and Garnett', in Moran B; Salzani C (ed.), Philosophy and Kafka, Lexington Books, Lanham, pp. 123 - 140

Danta C, 2012, '"The cold illucid world": The Poetics of Gray in Cormac McCarthy's The Road', in Murphet J; Steven M (ed.), Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Continuum, New York, pp. 9 - 26

Danta C, 2011, 'Introduction J.M. Coetzee: The Janus Face of Authority', in Danta C; Kossew S; Murphet J (ed.), Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, Continuum, London and New York, pp. xi - xx

Danta C, 2011, 'Revolution at a Distance: Jane Austen and Personalised History', in Russo S; Napton D; Cousins AD (ed.), The French Revolution and the British Novel in the Romantic Period, Peter Lang, New York and Oxford, pp. 137 - 152

Danta C, 2011, 'The Melancholy Ape: Coetzee's Fables of Animal Finitude', in Danta C; Kossew S; Murphet J (ed.), Strong Opinions: J.M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, Continuum, London and New York, pp. 125 - 140

Danta C, 2008, 'The Animal Substitutes', in Lloyd F (ed.), The Finlay Lloyd Book About Animals, Finlay Lloyd Publishers, Braidwood, NSW, pp. 87 - 97

Danta C, 2005, '`The Absolutely Dark Moment of the Plot`: Blanchot`s Abraham', in HIll L; Nelson B; Vardoulakis D (ed.), After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy, Univesity of Delaware Press, Newark, pp. 205 - 221

Edited Books

Groth H; Danta C; Groth H, (eds.), 2014, Mindful Aesthetics. Literature and the Science of Mind, Bloomsbury, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472543707

Danta C; Kossew SR; Murphet JS, (eds.), 2011, Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, Bloomsbury, New York, https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/strong-opinions-9781441105301/

Journal articles

Hume A; Danta C; DiMatteo DF; Greer EE; O'Key D; Callahan C, 2024, 'Contributors', Contemporary Literature, 64, pp. 592 - 593, http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/CL.63.4.592

Danta C, 2024, 'The Blue Fox: Cryptic Storytelling and Nonhuman Mimicry in the Work of Sjón and Jeff VanderMeer', Contemporary Literature, 64, pp. 465 - 499, http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/cl.63.4.465

Danta C, 2023, '"I don't want to put my toys away"', Journal of Juvenilia Studies, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/jjs88

Danta C, 2023, 'J.M. Coetzee and the Aesthetics of Disgust', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 28, pp. 3 - 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2023.2270353

Danta C, 2022, 'Earthbound in the Anthropocene', Derrida Today, 15, pp. 87 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drt.2022.0282

Danta C, 2019, 'Panpsychism and speculative evolutionary aesthetics in Samuel Butler's 'The Book of the Machines'', TEXTUAL PRACTICE, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2019.1652679

Danta C, 2018, 'Eurydice's Curse: J. M. Coetzee and the Prospect of Death', Australian Literary Studies, 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.20314/als.5a6d5f0afc

Danta C, 2018, 'The Theology of Personification: Allegory and Nonhuman Agency in the Work of T. F. Powys', Modernism/modernity, 25, pp. 709 - 728, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2018.0056

Danta C, 2015, 'Acrobats and ascetics: Peter Sloterdijk and the aesthetics of verticality', European Journal of English Studies, 19, pp. 66 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2015.1004918

Danta C, 2014, '"Might sovereignty be devouring?" Derrida and the fable', Sub-Stance, 43, pp. 37 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.2014.0014

Chrulew M; Danta C, 2014, 'Fabled thought: On Jacques Derrida's the beast & the sovereign', Sub-Stance, 43, pp. 3 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.2014.0023

Danta C, 2013, 'Derrida and the Test of Secrecy', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 18, pp. 61 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2013.804991

Danta C, 2013, 'The New Solitude: Melancholy Anthropomorphism and the Molecular Gaze', English Studies in Canada, 39, pp. 71 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esc.2013.0017

Danta C, 2012, 'The future will have been animal: Dr Moreau and the aesthetics of monstrosity', Textual Practice, 26, pp. 687 - 705, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2012.696490

Danta C, 2011, 'INTRODUCTION: J. M. Coetzee: The Janus Face of Authority', Strong Opinions: J. M. Coetzee and the Authority of Contemporary Fiction, pp. xiii - xxii

Danta C, 2010, 'The Metaphysical Cut: Darwin and Stevenson on Vivisection', Victorian Review: an interdisciplinary journal of victorian studies, 36, pp. 51 - 65, http://web.uvic.ca/victorianreview/contents.html

Danta C, 2009, 'Coetzee`s Animal Afterlives', Southerly, 69, http://www.brandl.com.au/Southerly/southerly%20longpaddock/1-69/danta.html

Danta C, 2009, 'Kafka and Cultural Zionism: Dates in Palestine , and: Kafka and Photography (review)', Modernism/modernity, 16, pp. 629 - 631, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.0.0121

Danta C, 2008, 'Kafka's Mousetrap: The Fable of the Dying Voice', SubStance, 37, pp. 152 - 168

Danta C, 2008, 'Sarah's Laughter: Kafka's Abraham', Modernism/Modernity, 15, pp. 343 - 359, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2008.0048

, 2008, 'The Political Animal',

Danta C; Vardoulakis D, 2008, 'The Political Animal Foreword', SubStance, 37, pp. 3 - 6

Danta C, 2007, '`Like a dog ..... like a lamb`: Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Kafka and Coetzee', New Literary History, 38.4, pp. 721 - 739

Danta C, 2007, 'The Poetics of Distance: Kierkegaard`s Abraham', Literature and Theology, 21, pp. 160 - 177

Danta C, 2006, 'Two versions of death: The transformation of the literary corpse in Kafka and Stevenson', Textual Practice, 20, pp. 281 - 300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502360600703302

Danta C, 2005, 'The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred', COLLOQUY-TEXT THEORY CRITIQUE, pp. 328 - 330, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000421901300024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Danta C, 2005, 'Disclosing Spaces: On Painting' by Andrew Benjamin', AUSTRALIAN HUMANITIES REVIEW, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000219043600006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Conference Papers

Andres J; Danta C; Bianchi A; Hong S; Li Z; Sandoval EB; Martin CP; Cooper N, 2024, 'Understanding and Shaping Human-Technology Assemblages in the Age of Generative AI', in DIS 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 413 - 416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3658403

Conference Presentations

Danta C, 2007, 'The Scientific Ape: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Post-Darwinian Fable', presented at RLS 2008, Bergamo, Italy, 12 July 2007 - 13 July 2007

Danta C, 2005, 'Transuming Abraham: Fear and Trembling and the Poetics of Identification', presented at 1st International Kierkegaard in Asia Conference, University of Melbourne

Danta C, 2004, 'The Absolutely Dark Moment of the Plot', presented at Blanchot’s Abraham, International Colloquium: “Blanchot, the Obscure”

Media

O'Sullivan S; Danta C, 2019, Episode 137: Animal Fables with Chris Danta, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27762

Preprints

Andres J; Danta C; Bianchi A; Hong S; Li Z; Sandoval EB; Martin C; Cooper N, 2024, Understanding and Shaping Human-Technology Assemblages in the Age of Generative AI, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2404.18405

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