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"Animal Farm offers a multidisciplinary range of perspectives on George Orwells classic satire. The volume of essay includes a consideration of Animal Farms rhetorical use by contemporary British politicians, a biopolitical reading of the text, a consideration of the work within the tradition of beast fables, an assessment within the tradition of literary anthropomorphism, an analysis of Orwells use of humor in the book, and a comparison of narrative strategies in Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Through this collection, readers will appreciate Animal Farms influence on literature, politics, sociology, and history"--Amazon.com

Totalitarianism in literature. --- Dystopias in literature. --- Anthropomorphism in literature. --- Orwell, George, --- Animal farm (Orwell, George)

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In the literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity, speaking animals are most prominent in fables, but in fact they are a genre-crossing phenomenon. Ancient traditions of animal speech continue to have an effect on European literature up to the present day and at the same time have parallels in other early civilizations like Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the 21 contributions of this interdisciplinary conference volume, international researchers from the fields of Classical Philology, Ancient History, Egyptology, Ancient Oriental Studies, Theology and Jewish Studies explore animal speech in ancient texts from the very beginnings to late antiquity, including their reception. Contexts relating to literary, intellectual, cultural and social history are considered as well as concepts of animality and humanity, building a bridge to the more recently established Human-Animal Studies

Animals in literature. --- Classical literature --- Classical literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Ancient --- Anthropomorphism in literature. --- Themes, motives.

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This book critiques how wolves and other animals thought unlikeable are negatively portrayed and become targets of violence in materials directed toward young consumers. The author counters these portrayals by discussing materials that articulate harmonious animal-human interrelationships.

Children's literature --- Animals in literature. --- Animals in motion pictures. --- Child consumers. --- Anthropomorphism in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole year, a scholar finds inspiration for his studies in his cat's perfect focus on killing mice, and a dispossessed knight wins back his heritage only to give it up again in order to save the life of his warhorse. Readers have often taken such encounters to be merely figurative or fanciful, but Susan Crane discovers that these scenes of interaction are firmly grounded in the intimate cohabitation with animals that characterized every medieval milieu from palace to village. The animal encounters of medieval literature reveal their full meaning only when we recover the living animal's place within the written animal. The grip of a certain humanism was strong in medieval Britain, as it is today: the humanism that conceives animals in diametrical opposition to humankind. Yet medieval writing was far from univocal in this regard. Latin and vernacular works abound in other ways of thinking about animals that invite the saint, the scholar, and the knight to explore how bodies and minds interpenetrate across species lines. Crane brings these other ways of thinking to light in her readings of the beast fable, the hunting treatise, the saint's life, the bestiary, and other genres. Her substantial contribution to the field of animal studies investigates how animals and people interact in culture making, how conceiving the animal is integral to conceiving the human, and how cross-species encounters transform both their animal and their human participants.

English literature --- Human-animal relationships in literature. --- Anthropomorphism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Cultural Studies. --- History. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies. The driving force behind this program is Euripides's desire to subvert the traditional anthropomorphic view of the Greek gods-a belief system that in his view strips human beings of their independence and ability to act wisely and justly. Instead of fatuous religious beliefs, Athenians need the wisdom and the strength to navigate the challenges and difficulties of life.Throughout his lifetime, Euripides found himself the target of intense criticism and ridicule. He was accused of promoting new ideas that were considered destructive. Like his contemporary, Socrates, he was considered a corrupting influence. No wonder, then, that Euripides had to carry out his revolution "under cover." Pucci lays out the various ways the playwright skillfully inserted his philosophical principles into the text through innovative strategies of plot development, language and composition, and production techniques that subverted the traditionally staged anthropomorphic gods.

Anthropomorphism in literature. --- Gods, Greek, in literature --- Anthropomorphism in literature --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- Gods, Greek, in literature. --- Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Anthropomorphisme --- Dans la littérature. --- Euripide, --- Euripide --- E-books --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης