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Fly

By Steven Connor
Series: Animal
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Fly by Steven Connor explores the intricate relationship between humans and the fly throughout history. It delves into how this often overlooked creature has influenced various aspects of science, art, and culture. The book offers a fascinating look into the significance of flies, examining their impact on human imagination and the natural world.
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You might enjoy this book if you are fascinated by the intricate details of flight and how it has shaped human understanding of the natural world. It's an engaging exploration that blends science, history, and the symbolic meaning of flight, offering fresh insights into a fundamental aspect of our civilisation.

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Fly

Few creatures live in such close and intimate contact with human beings as flies. The secrets of the fly's uniquely versatile powers of flight are only just beginning to be understood and harnessed. This book explores the slow redemption of the fly, as the intricate miracle of its design and function gradually became appreciated.

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For centuries, flies have been seen as mankind's enemy, blamed for plagues, subject to public excommunication in the Middle Ages and campaigns of extermination during the early years of the twentieth century.

Fly tracks the representation of the fly in myth, literature, poetry, film, painting, theology, and biology. There are chapters on artificial flies, the demonic fly, the erotics of the fly, and the fly as a carrier of disease.

Series: Animal

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781861892942

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2006

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Reaktion Books

Illustration: 126 illustrations, 75 in colour

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Animal Steven Connor

About the Author

Steven Connor is Professor of English and Director of Research at the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College London. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (2019).

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