Title: Knowing animals /
Authors: Simmons, Laurence.; Armstrong, Philip, 1967-
Publisher: Brill,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Human-animal relationships.; Animal behavior.; Anthropomorphism
Abstract: "Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary criticism, art history and cultural studies. The essays collected here describe a lively bestiary of cultural organisms, whose flesh is (at least partly) conceptual and textual: paper tigers, beast fables, anthropomorphs, humanimals, l'animot. In so doing, they investigate the benefits of knowing animals differently: more closely, less definitively, more carefully, less certainly."--Jacket.