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Title

The semiotics of animal representations / edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen.

Publication

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Tüür, Kadri
• Tønnessen, Morten, 1976-

Description

376 pages : illustrations, music; 23 cm.

Summary

"The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often conflicting ideas about our relationships with nonhuman species. Whether the animal is seen as someone with whom we can relate and feel kinship or conceived of as the radical other, popular cultural descriptions of animals are often - if not always - indirect descriptions of ourselves. The contributions to this volume offer a unique panorama of academic and literary approaches, demonstrating that an analysis of cultural representations and constructions of animals is indispensable for a better understanding of the interface of human culture and the so-called animal world." --

Series Statement

Nature, culture, and literature ; 10

Uniform Title

Nature, culture and literature ; 10.

Subject

• Human-animal relationships
• Relations homme-animal
• Human-animal relationships
• Literatur
• Tiere Motiv
• Tierdarstellung
• Semiotics
• Animal representations
• Zoosemiotics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Morten Tønnessen and Kadri T : The semiotics of animal representations -- Part I: From Shepherding To Colonisation -- Louise Westling: The zoosemiotics of sheep herding with dogs -- David Rothenberg: Avian aesthetics: The representation of bird song from music to science -- Christos Lynteris: Speaking marmots, deaf hunters: Animalhuman semiotic breakdown as the imagined cause of the Manchurian pneumonic plague of 191011 -- Part II: From Illustration To Show -- Adam Dodd: Entomological rhetoric and the fabrication of the insect world -- Larissa Budde: "Back on the menu": Humans, insectoid aliens and the creation of ecophobia in science fiction -- Graham Huggan: Attenboroughs natural history films: The evolutionary epic -- Part III: From Life Writing To Nature Writing -- Taija Kaarlenkaski: Communicating with the cow: Humananimal interaction in written narratives -- Maki Eguchi: The representation of sheep in modern Japanese literature from Natsume Soseki to Murakami Haruki -- Sandra ̃Mnty: Animal representation in the Harry Potter series -- Kadri T : Like a fish out of water: Literary representations of fish -- Part IV: From Mind To Value -- Wendy Wheeler: Thought without concepts in Angels and Insects: A.S. Byatt as crypto-biosemiotician -- W. John Coletta: A Peircean semiotic model for describing the anti-Oedipal structure of "humanimal" selves -- Ralph R. Acampora: The (proto-)ethical significance of semiosis: When and how does one become somebody who matters?

ISBN

• 9042038276
• 9789042038271
• 9789401210720 (canceled/invalid)
• 9401210721 (E-Book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2014451482

OCLC

• 881441151
• SCSB-11756892

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library