Animal Perception and Literary Language (1st ed. 2019) (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

By: Donald Wesling

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783030049690
Related ISBNs:: 9783030049683
Publisher:: Springer International Publishing
Date of Addition:: 12/26/18
Copyrighted By:: Springer
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
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Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Language Arts, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
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