Format:
Online-Ressource (XXIV, 327 p. 1 illus, online resource)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
ISBN:
9783030049690
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
Content:
Animal Perception and Literary Language shows that the perceptual content of reading and writing derives from our embodied minds. Donald Wesling considers how humans, evolved from animals, have learned to code perception of movement into sentences and scenes. The book first specifies terms and questions in animal philosophy and surveys recent work on perception, then describes attributes of multispecies thinking and defines a tradition of writers in this lineage. Finally, the text concludes with literature coming into full focus in twelve case studies of varied readings. Overall, Wesling's book offers not a new method of literary criticism, but a reveal of what we all do with perceptual content when we read
Content:
Part I: Imbroglios of Humans and Nonhumans -- Part II: Perception, Cognition, Writing -- Part III: Attributes of Animalist Thinking -- Part IV: Animalist Thinking From Lucretius to Temple Grandin -- Part V: Perception and Expectation in Literature
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030049683
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030049706
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-030-04968-3
Additional Edition:
Printed edition ISBN 9783030049683
Additional Edition:
Printed edition ISBN 9783030049706
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-04969-0
