Animal Narratology

• Other Authors: Jacobs, Joela (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Animals & society; animal narrators; anthropocentrism; cultural ontologies; discourse analysis; fiction-nonfiction distinction; framing and footing; life writing; narratology; politeness; self-narratives; animal studies; human-animal studies; speaking animals; Tolstoy; Bulgakov; trauma theory; Russian literature; allegory; humanism; literary theory; film studies; George Orwell; Animal Farm; Chicken Run; Uwe Timm; 'Morenga'; African history; colonialism; postcolonial German literature; animal narratology; multi-perspective narration; animal agency; The Plague Dogs; Richard Adams; unreliability; talking animal stories; non-human focalizer; Pincher Martin; non-human narrators; intradiegetic narration; Gerard Genette; anthropomorphism; Eric Linklater; The Wind on the Moon; direct speech; characterization; posthumanism; inter-species comprehension; Hindi cinema; Bollywood; animal narrator; world literature; empathy; Cartesian dualism; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; animal poetry; 'Inventing a Horse; 'Spermaceti'; eco-humanities; eco-criticism; eco-philosophy; Industrial Farm Animal Production; narrative; plot; conflict; environmental crisis; catastrophe; play theory; Franz Kafka; manuscripts; speaking-for; narrative representation; literary representation; animal autobiography; fictional autobiography; meta-autobiography; contextualist narratology; cultural and literary animal studies; poetics of knowledge; zoology; natural history; equine autozoography; horse-science; narrative voice; inoperativity; singing mice; zoopoetics; anthropological machine; community; music; Cervantes; Novelas ejemplares; El coloquio de los perros; Novela del casamiento engañoso; Siglo de Oro; Early Modern Age; cynicism; Diogenes of Sinope; Montaigne; Derrida; Animal Studies; rhetoric; animal narration; fable; Aesopic fables; Greek fable; antagonistic fables; comics; animals; cinema; sound effects; science fiction; Achilles; Archilochus; fox; Gryllus; Hesiod; Homer; Lucian; pig; Plutarch; Pythagoras; rooster; Xanthus; talking dogs; agency; animal; dystopia; Marie Darrieussecq; human; non-human; Truismes; Kafka studies; adaptation studies; intertextuality; intermediality; mimesis; emulation; imitation; repetition; parody; autobiography; genre; entanglement; Cixous; dogs; earth; worldviews; indigenous wisdom traditions; relationality; ecology; language; more-than-human geography; multispecies ethnography; ecopsychology; anthropology; environmental philosophy; decolonization; intuition; instinct; myth; non-verbal communication; IK; TEK; animality; film; White God; filmic representation of animals; material ecocriticism; Moby-Dick; Werner Herzog; Hans Sahl; lyric poetry; mole; space; time; species; metamorphosis; transformation; exile; n/a
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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 cont...