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  1. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

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    "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu"...

     

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  2. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

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    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781108552394
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    RVK Categories: EC 6579
    Subjects: Animals in literature; Fables / History and criticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Literature, Modern / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature, Modern / 20th century / History and criticism; Fabel; Naturwissenschaften
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 Seiten)
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  3. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781108552394
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: EC 6579
    Subjects: Animals in literature; Fables / History and criticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Literature, Modern / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature, Modern / 20th century / History and criticism; Fabel; Naturwissenschaften
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 Seiten)
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  4. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108449076; 1108449077; 9781108428200; 1108428207
    Subjects: Fabel; Tiere <Motiv>; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: ix, 216 Seiten
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    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 194-208

  5. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

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    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781108552394
    Subjects: Fabel; Tiere <Motiv>; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 pages)
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    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2018)

  6. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    91.040.60
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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781108449076; 1108449077; 9781108428200; 1108428207
    Subjects: Fabel; Tiere <Motiv>; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)
    Scope: ix, 216 Seiten
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 194-208