Animal Narratology
Jacobs, Joela
Animal Narratology - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (454 p.)
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Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.
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English
books978-3-03928-349-1 9783039283484 9783039283491
10.3390/books978-3-03928-349-1 doi
Research & information: general
Biology, life sciences
Animals & society
animal narrators anthropocentrism cultural ontologies discourse analysis fiction–nonfiction distinction framing and footing life writing narratology politeness self-narratives animal studies human-animal studies speaking animals Tolstoy Bulgakov trauma theory Russian literature allegory humanism literary theory film studies George Orwell Animal Farm Chicken Run Uwe Timm ‘Morenga’ African history colonialism postcolonial German literature animal narratology multi-perspective narration animal agency The Plague Dogs Richard Adams unreliability talking animal stories non-human focalizer Pincher Martin non-human narrators intradiegetic narration Gerard Genette anthropomorphism Eric Linklater The Wind on the Moon direct speech characterization posthumanism inter-species comprehension Hindi cinema Bollywood animal narrator world literature empathy Cartesian dualism Maurice Merleau-Ponty animal poetry ‘Inventing a Horse ‘Spermaceti’ eco-humanities eco-criticism eco-philosophy Industrial Farm Animal Production narrative plot conflict environmental crisis catastrophe play theory Franz Kafka manuscripts speaking-for narrative representation literary representation animal autobiography fictional autobiography meta-autobiography contextualist narratology cultural and literary animal studies poetics of knowledge zoology natural history equine autozoography horse-science narrative voice inoperativity singing mice zoopoetics anthropological machine community music Cervantes Novelas ejemplares El coloquio de los perros Novela del casamiento engañoso Siglo de Oro Early Modern Age cynicism Diogenes of Sinope Montaigne Derrida Animal Studies rhetoric animal narration fable Aesopic fables Greek fable antagonistic fables comics animals cinema sound effects science fiction Achilles Archilochus fox Gryllus Hesiod Homer Lucian pig Plutarch Pythagoras rooster Xanthus talking dogs agency animal dystopia Marie Darrieussecq human non-human Truismes Kafka studies adaptation studies intertextuality intermediality mimesis emulation imitation repetition parody autobiography genre entanglement Cixous dogs earth worldviews indigenous wisdom traditions relationality ecology language more-than-human geography multispecies ethnography ecopsychology anthropology environmental philosophy decolonization intuition instinct myth non-verbal communication IK TEK animality film White God filmic representation of animals material ecocriticism Moby-Dick Werner Herzog Hans Sahl lyric poetry mole space time species metamorphosis transformation exile n/a
Animal Narratology - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (454 p.)
Open Access
Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03928-349-1 9783039283484 9783039283491
10.3390/books978-3-03928-349-1 doi
Research & information: general
Biology, life sciences
Animals & society
animal narrators anthropocentrism cultural ontologies discourse analysis fiction–nonfiction distinction framing and footing life writing narratology politeness self-narratives animal studies human-animal studies speaking animals Tolstoy Bulgakov trauma theory Russian literature allegory humanism literary theory film studies George Orwell Animal Farm Chicken Run Uwe Timm ‘Morenga’ African history colonialism postcolonial German literature animal narratology multi-perspective narration animal agency The Plague Dogs Richard Adams unreliability talking animal stories non-human focalizer Pincher Martin non-human narrators intradiegetic narration Gerard Genette anthropomorphism Eric Linklater The Wind on the Moon direct speech characterization posthumanism inter-species comprehension Hindi cinema Bollywood animal narrator world literature empathy Cartesian dualism Maurice Merleau-Ponty animal poetry ‘Inventing a Horse ‘Spermaceti’ eco-humanities eco-criticism eco-philosophy Industrial Farm Animal Production narrative plot conflict environmental crisis catastrophe play theory Franz Kafka manuscripts speaking-for narrative representation literary representation animal autobiography fictional autobiography meta-autobiography contextualist narratology cultural and literary animal studies poetics of knowledge zoology natural history equine autozoography horse-science narrative voice inoperativity singing mice zoopoetics anthropological machine community music Cervantes Novelas ejemplares El coloquio de los perros Novela del casamiento engañoso Siglo de Oro Early Modern Age cynicism Diogenes of Sinope Montaigne Derrida Animal Studies rhetoric animal narration fable Aesopic fables Greek fable antagonistic fables comics animals cinema sound effects science fiction Achilles Archilochus fox Gryllus Hesiod Homer Lucian pig Plutarch Pythagoras rooster Xanthus talking dogs agency animal dystopia Marie Darrieussecq human non-human Truismes Kafka studies adaptation studies intertextuality intermediality mimesis emulation imitation repetition parody autobiography genre entanglement Cixous dogs earth worldviews indigenous wisdom traditions relationality ecology language more-than-human geography multispecies ethnography ecopsychology anthropology environmental philosophy decolonization intuition instinct myth non-verbal communication IK TEK animality film White God filmic representation of animals material ecocriticism Moby-Dick Werner Herzog Hans Sahl lyric poetry mole space time species metamorphosis transformation exile n/a