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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822546503321

Autore

Wagschal Steven

Titolo

Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds : A Cognitive Historical Analysis / / Steven Wagschal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-4875-1771-8

1-4875-1770-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 pages)

Collana

Toronto Iberic

Disciplina

809/.93362

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electonic books.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Minding animals with anthropomorphism -- Deploying the animal in medieval miracles, bestiaries, and fables -- Exploiting the animal through hunting and husbandry -- Describing the animal in New World habitats -- Embodying animals : Cervantes and animal cognition -- Epilogue: Minding animals after Cervantes.

Sommario/riassunto

Relying on current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition, Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds explores how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern period.