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Animal Narratology interrogates what it means to narrate, to speak—speak for, on behalf of—and to voice, or represent life beyond the human, which is in itself as different as insects, bears, and dogs are from each other, and yet more, as individual as a single mouse, horse, or puma. The varied contributions to this interdisciplinary Special Issue highlight assumptions about the human perception of, attitude toward, and responsibility for the animals that are read and written about, thus demonstrating that just as “the animal” does not exist, neither does “the human”. In their zoopoetic focus, the analyses are aware that animal narratology ultimately always contains an approximation of an animal perspective in human terms and terminology, yet they make clear that what matters is how the animal is approximated and that there is an effort to approach and encounter the non-human in the first place. Many of the analyses come to the conclusion that literary animals give readers the opportunity to expand their own points of view both on themselves and others by adopting another’s perspective to the degree that such an endeavor is possible. Ultimately, the contributions call for a recognition of the many spaces, moments, and modes in which human lives are entangled with those of animals—one of which is located within the creative bounds of storytelling.
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Keywords
- achilles
- adaptation studies
- Aesopic fables
- African history
- agency
- Allegory
- Animal
- animal agency
- animal autobiography
- Animal Farm
- animal narration
- animal narratology
- animal narrator
- animal narrators
- animal poetry
- animal studies
- animality
- Animals
- Animals & society
- antagonistic fables
- anthropocentrism
- anthropological machine
- anthropology
- anthropomorphism
- Archilochus
- Autobiography
- Biology, Life Sciences
- Bollywood
- Bulgakov
- Cartesian dualism
- catastrophe
- Cervantes
- Characterization
- Chicken Run
- Cinéma
- Cixous
- colonialism
- Comics
- Community
- Conflict
- contextualist narratology
- cultural and literary animal studies
- cultural ontologies
- cynicism
- Decolonization
- Derrida
- Diogenes of Sinope
- direct speech
- Discourse analysis
- Dogs
- dystopia
- Early Modern Age
- Earth
- eco-criticism
- eco-humanities
- Eco-philosophy
- Ecology
- ecopsychology
- El coloquio de los perros
- Empathy
- Emulation
- entanglement
- Environmental Crisis
- environmental philosophy
- equine autozoography
- Eric Linklater
- Exile
- fable
- fictional autobiography
- fiction–nonfiction distinction
- Film
- film studies
- filmic representation of animals
- fox
- framing and footing
- Franz Kafka
- genre
- George Orwell
- Gerard Genette
- Greek fable
- Gryllus
- Hans Sahl
- Hesiod
- Hindi cinema
- Homer
- horse-science
- Human
- Human-Animal Studies
- Humanism
- IK
- Imitation
- indigenous wisdom traditions
- Industrial Farm Animal Production
- inoperativity
- Instinct
- inter-species comprehension
- Intermediality
- intertextuality
- intradiegetic narration
- Intuition
- Kafka studies
- Language
- Life writing
- literary representation
- Literary theory
- Lucian
- Lyric poetry
- Manuscripts
- Marie Darrieussecq
- material ecocriticism
- Mathematics & science
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- meta-autobiography
- Metamorphosis
- Mimesis
- Moby-Dick
- mole
- Montaigne
- more-than-human geography
- multi-perspective narration
- multispecies ethnography
- Music
- myth
- n/a
- Narrative
- narrative representation
- narrative voice
- Narratology
- Natural history
- non-human
- non-human focalizer
- non-human narrators
- Non-verbal communication
- Novela del casamiento engañoso
- Novelas ejemplares
- parody
- pig
- Pincher Martin
- play theory
- plot
- Plutarch
- poetics of knowledge
- Politeness
- postcolonial German literature
- Posthumanism
- Pythagoras
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Relationality
- Repetition
- Research & information: general
- Rhetoric
- Richard Adams
- rooster
- Russian literature
- Science Fiction
- self-narratives
- Siglo de Oro
- singing mice
- Social issues & processes
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sound effects
- Space
- speaking animals
- speaking-for
- Species
- talking animal stories
- talking dogs
- TEK
- The Plague Dogs
- The Wind on the Moon
- Time
- Tolstoy
- transformation
- trauma theory
- Truismes
- unreliability
- Uwe Timm
- Werner Herzog
- White God
- World Literature
- worldviews
- Xanthus
- Zoology
- zoopoetics
- ‘Inventing a Horse
- ‘Morenga’
- ‘Spermaceti’
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DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03928-349-1Editions