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Anthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought. Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.

Anthropomorphism. --- Analogy. --- Analogy (Religion) --- Anthropomorphism in literature. --- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Reasoning --- Symbolism --- God --- Corporeality

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Why do poets write about animals? What can poetry do for animals and what can animals do for poetry? In some cases, poetry inscribes meaning on animals, turning them into symbols or caricatures and bringing them into the confines of human culture. It also reveals and revels in the complexity of animals. Poetry, through its great variety and its inherently experimental nature, has embraced the multifaceted nature of animals to cross, blur, and reimagine the boundaries between human and animal.In Poetry and Animals, Onno Oerlemans explores a broad range of English-language poetry about animals from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. He presents a taxonomy of kinds of animal poems, breaking down the categories and binary oppositions at the root of human thinking about animals. The book considers several different types of poetry: allegorical poems, poems about "the animal" broadly conceived, poems about species of animal, poems about individual animals or the animal as individual, and poems about hybrids and hybridity. Through careful readings of dozens of poems that reveal generous and often sympathetic approaches to recognizing and valuing animals' difference and similarity, Oerlemans demonstrates how the forms and modes of poetry can sensitize us to the moral standing of animals and give us new ways to think through the problems of the human-animal divide.

Animals in literature. --- Exempla in literature. --- Anthropomorphism in literature. --- Human-animal relationships in literature. --- Animal welfare in literature. --- Animals --- Poetry, Modern --- Poetry, Medieval --- Symbolic aspects of animals --- Symbolism of animals --- Symbolism --- Symbolic aspects. --- History and criticism.

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Après avoir envisagé les relations entre polythéisme et poésie épique dans un premier volume collectif et les enjeux de l’anthropomorphisme dans un deuxième, ce troisième temps de l’exploration des dieux d’Homère s’attache aux appellations divines. La grande versatilité des formes adoptées par les dieux se construit, en effet, et s’exprime également à travers les multiples stratégies de leur nomination : les noms, épithètes, qualifications, bref les attributs onomastiques qu’on leur prête, ainsi que leurs agencements, constituent l’une des formes principales de la représentation hellénique du divin, dans les poèmes homériques et au-delà. Les attributs onomastiques des dieux d’Homère renvoient à des qualités, des espaces, des modalités d’action, des domaines d’intervention ou encore des contextes rituels, et ils font l’objet d’une combinatoire qui explore, dans un jeu subtil de variations et de reprises, le tissu polythéiste du monde. Complexes et relationnels, les epōnymiai forment bien, comme le rappelle Hérodote par référence à Homère et Hésiode, un élément clé des systèmes polythéistes. L’examen du dossier homérique et de ses échos, proches et lointains, dans les textes comme dans les images, permet de questionner les noms des dieux comme un langage polysémique, susceptible d’évoluer au gré des contextes d’énonciation. Loin d’être un ornement ou une simple étiquette, les attributs onomastiques fabriquent les dieux dans la poésie archaïque et ne cessent de les reconfigurer en circulant d’un contexte à l’autre dans les traditions de la Grèce antique, en une sorte de pulsion de la mémoire culturelle.

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