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Telling new myths ('teachings'), Ojibwe people in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan engage in creative processes of cultural renewal, like many Native Americans today. These narratives fit the genre of [...]

Anthropocentricism, in some sense, is logically unavoidable,' the philosopher David Wood writes: 'Any account we come up with of 'our' relation to 'animals' will be from 'our' point of view' [...]

Reading Go Down, Moses through the lens of recent work in animal studies demonstrates not only Faulkners environmental ethics but, more specifically, the ways in which his fictional representations of [...]

Among the common mechanisms for understanding human bodies, in sickness and in health, proliferating among professionals and laypeople alike during the transatlantic long eighteenth century was the nonhuman animal. Often [...]

IN THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU (1896), H. G. Wells spares none of his characters. If there are no fully human characters in this post-Darwinian novel, then there are also [...]

FROM THE TWELFTH through the fourteenth centuries, animals were a constituent and pervasive part of daily life in medieval Europe; indeed, it has been argued that in no period other [...]

Mrs. Dalloway's sustained critique of the structures of hierarchy and dominance that underpin patriarchy, imperialism, and the class system extends to species difference and the obsession with mastery that determines [...]

Abstract This article discusses the representation of animals and nature in selected lyrics from the oeuvre of singer, songwriter and producer David Kramer and considers his engagement with historical and [...]

Nonhuman animals are primarily defined according to their form of relation with human beings, which broadly depends on the perceived utility of those animals to humans. These relations may be analyzed to generate typologies, membership of which circumscribes the probable fate of nonhuman animals when they enter into contact with humans. However, these judgments of utility and category membership are contingent and socially constructed, as demonstrated by cultural and historical variability in the species and individual animals assigned to particular types. This paper explores how the combination of childhood literary and film traditions relating to animals and associated promotional food tie-ins aimed at children contribute to a food socialization process whereby children learn to conceptually distance the animals they eat from those with whom they have an emotional bond or for whom they feel ethically responsible. In so doing, we develop a theoretical scheme for the differentiated positioning of animals. Keywords: Babe, children's films, children's literature, food socialization, The Lion King, nonhuman animals, speciesism, Introduction Nonhuman animals are primarily defined according to their form of relation with human beings, which broadly speaking, depends on the perceived utility of those animals to humans. These relations [...]

To rethink the animal is to rethink the human. This tenet, supported by an interdisciplinary consideration of animal/human relations, informs an examination of how the representation of animals in Elizabeth [...]

This essay locates in eighteenth-century georgic poetry an attention to zoosemiotics, which interrupts the logocentric practice of making the animal's ostensible silence grounds for ethical exclusion, and anticipates recent ethological [...]

By way of a philosophical examination of select animal images from Nietzsche's animal menagerie, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, this essay develops the thesis that Nietzsche's animal images provide lessons in deep [...]

This essay reads J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go with reference to the Lacanian distinction between humans and animals, such that humans are exiled from the [...]

This essay studies the two sister tales 'Anaconda' and 'Regreso de Anaconda' by Horacio Quiroga using an ecocritical approach. By questioning specifically the anthropomorphization of the animal protagonists, the essay [...]

Crossing borders or the ends of man I come or surrender to the animal--to the animal in itself, to the animal in me and the animal at unease with itself. [...]

Summary This essay is located within the new field of Animal Studies, and foregrounds literary representations of animals within a historicised culture, while stressing that ecologies are inseparable from politics [...]

So thoroughly has The Adventures of Pinocchio permeated our culture that Carl Sagan selects for inclusion among Ellie Arroway's formative childhood memories an incident from Collodi's novel that had undoubtedly [...]

This article discusses the manner in which femininity, shape shifting, magic, and romance are portrayed in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale.' Topics include surrealism, point of view, and mythology.

The way in which scientific debate about humanity's origins in the Victorian era influenced children's literature about talking animals is discussed. The works of Rudyard Kipling and Margaret Gatty are focused on.

A critical analysis of European fairy tales is discussed. The author focuses on the symbolism and themes of animals, rejuvenation, and transformation used in most European fairytales, such as 'Cinderella', 'Catskin', and 'Cap o' Rushes'.

Virgil's 'Georgics' and John's book of Revelation share a similar view of the natural world as simultaneously terrifying and beautiful. Virgil's description of the Italian countryside contrast to the destruction of nature in John, while Revelation's theology of hope provides a theological focus Virgil lacks.

Authors who impute a spiritual nature to animals are probably contributing to the cause of animal rights. Animal-based views of spirituality treats humans more compassionately than many conventional belief systems.

Several ancient Greek and Roman authors described donkeys with one horn that lived in Central Asia. Some scholars have proposed this animal is the Persian onager or a combination of donkey, chiru, and rhinoceros, but a more likely possibility is a Nepalese tradition of horn manipulation in the Tibetan kiang.

A 15-century bestiary has been rediscovered at St. John's College in Cambridge, UK. The manuscript is unfinished and incomplete, and its origin and relation to other contemporary bestiaries are discussed.

An analysis is presented of 'Casina' by Plautus, focusing on imagery and names. Topics include, warfare, beasts, food, odors, and the significance of character names.

Research was conducted on the global categorical representation of humans by infants who are three to four months old. The familiarization-novelty preference procedure was used in three experiments. The three experiments suggest that infants use the categorical representation of humans that include categorization of animals as a reference point in the formation of categorical representation for animals.

The 'TV Guide' periodical has often classified wildlife films as 'nature documentaries.' This identifications may be considered erroneous since wildlife films do not fit into the films classified under existing documentary models such as direct cinema, observational cinema and cinema verite. On the contrary, this type of film is more inclined towards the popular entertainment-type of programs.