Animal perception and literary language / Donald Wesling.
Wesling, Donald, author.
2019
PN56.A64 W47 2019eb
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Title Animal perception and literary language / Donald Wesling.
Author Wesling, Donald, author.
ISBN 3030049698
9783030049690 (electronic bk.)
303004968X
9783030049683
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Copyright ©2019
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 327 pages)
Call Number PN56.A64 W47 2019eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.93362
Summary 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.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 20, 2019).
Series Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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3. Jacques Derrida and Gernot Bohme: Critique of Existing Discourses on Our Animality
4. Literary Imbroglios: SciFi and Prose Poem
5. With Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Perception into Writing
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1. Perception and Sentence-Style
2. Replacing Perception into the Continuity of Cognition, Emotion, and Memory
3. Four Scholars on Five Senses
4. The Creations of Sound
5. A Second Look at Single Sentences
Attributes of Animalist Thinking
1. Intercreatural
2. Creativity
3. Embodied Mind
4. Dialogism
5. Amplification of Affect, with an Example from Annie Dillard
Animalist Thinking from Lucretius to Temple Grandin
1. Imbroglios of Humans and Nonhumans, Once Again
2. Lucretius
3. Michel de Montaigne
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5. John Muir
6. Alphonso Lingis
7. Laurie Shannon
8. Brian Massumi
9. Temple Grandin
10. What Ice Age Caves Afford to Aurochs in Manganese
Perception and Expectation in Literature
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2. Perception and Expectation in the Array of 12
3. Uses of the Array of 12 as a Return to the Material Universe
4. The Role of Animalist Perception in Literature.

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