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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484854003321

Autore

Wesling Donald

Titolo

Animal Perception and Literary Language / / by Donald Wesling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-04969-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, , 2634-6346

Disciplina

591.5

418.4019

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

Ethics

Cognitive psychology

Literary Theory

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Cognitive Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Imbroglios of Humans and Nonhumans -- Part II: Perception, Cognition, Writing -- Part III: Attributes of Animalist Thinking -- Part IV: Animalist Thinking From Lucretius to Temple Grandin -- Part V: Perception and Expectation in Literature.

Sommario/riassunto

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.