圖書標籤: animal Z Rogers Munzer Katharine Blinkist
发表于2024-11-25
Cat pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
"Cat" traces the relationship between humans and the cat from its original domestication in ancient Egypt c. 2000 BC, where it enjoyed high status, through its centuries as a mere utilitarian rodent catcher, its gradual acceptance as a charming and amiable pet, and its present status as a companion on a par with the dog. "Cats" spread from Egypt, reaching Britain by the fourth century BC and Japan by about the seventh. They were immediately appreciated in Japan, but in the West they were regarded as harmless and necessary at best, and, at worst, as convenient targets for abuse. Finally, in late-seventeenth-century France, an aristocratic coterie began to make much of their pet cats. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people of all classes came to appreciate cats as companions, and now there are more pet cats than pet dogs in both the UK and the USA. Long before people valued cats as companions, however, they recognized something special about them. Cats' ease of negotiation in the dark, their silent movements, their self-detachment even as they live in our homes, their refusal to defer to humans, seem to indicate strange, even supernatural powers. At first these attributes seemed sinister, but for later cat lovers they add to the animals' fascination. They have inspired writers from Poe to Lewis Carroll to imaginative creations. But cats can also be the embodiment of a happy home and good friends, whether they sustain a lonely old woman like Hall's Fraulein Schwartz or chat pleasantly with an old man in Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. The peculiar fascination of the cat, indeed, is the diversity of images it projects sweet and ferocious, affectionate and independent, elegant and earthy, cosily domestic and eerie. This book will appeal to the enormous number of people who like and are interested in cats. Unlike many other cat books, it offers substantial and accurate information about the history of cats and their presentation in literature and art.
Katharine M. Rogers is a freelance writer living in Bethesda, Maryland, usa. She is the author and editor of numerous books and anthologies including The Cat and the Human Imagination: Feline Images from Bast to Garfield (1998), L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz (2002) and First Friend: A History of Dogs and Humans (forthcoming).
治愈係小曆史
評分雜七雜八的小段子拼湊齣來的,信息量大但是比較龐雜,邏輯性不強,看著玩還行。
評分聽書。貓的前世今生。"As we have become less comfortable with hierarchical order, we expect cats (as well as dogs) to be equal companions..."
評分聽書。貓的前世今生。"As we have become less comfortable with hierarchical order, we expect cats (as well as dogs) to be equal companions..."
評分雜七雜八的小段子拼湊齣來的,信息量大但是比較龐雜,邏輯性不強,看著玩還行。
一开始讲了一些猫的进化,家猫在各个文明社会中地位的转变什么的,还挺不错的。 然后就开始说猫在各种文化体系中的身影,又是小说又是科学书又是画又是演出什么的,大量的罗列了许多很难接触到,通常情况也不会去接触的各类作品,然后就一直罗列罗列罗列,罗列到完。 内容不可...
評分书中举了例子:《如何再次杀死女朋友的猫》《如何再次杀死女朋友》是如何成为英国古代畅销书的。猫和女人有某种联系,书中说了一个特别有意思的概念就是男人为了控制女人只能杀死女人的猫,因为猫代表了独立性,把猫和女人联系在一起本身就是主观的,只能说猫具有阴性特质,但...
評分本书详细叙述了喵星文化渗透地球的过程,罗列了种种喵星人对蓝星人逐步进行洗脑的翔实证据。 可惜的是,人类作者或是为了免造迫害、或是受到喵星脑控影响,未能在本书中直接指出喵星人的险恶用心,致使大量读者难以了解真相,也使本书沦为了一本单纯的流水账。 喵。
評分一开始讲了一些猫的进化,家猫在各个文明社会中地位的转变什么的,还挺不错的。 然后就开始说猫在各种文化体系中的身影,又是小说又是科学书又是画又是演出什么的,大量的罗列了许多很难接触到,通常情况也不会去接触的各类作品,然后就一直罗列罗列罗列,罗列到完。 内容不可...
評分实习的日子平淡如水,坐在小隔间里闲来无事,就随手翻看凯瑟琳·M·罗杰斯的《猫》。从猫的生理结构讲到人类驯猫历史,再说到文学作品中猫的身份和寓意,眼看着19世纪画家和诗人的作品纷纷登场,猫的形象也随之变得活色生香。当波德莱尔这个熟悉的名字出现时,不禁眼前一亮...
Cat pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024