The Accommodated Animal: Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales
Laurie Shannon
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated Animal, the modern human / animal divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes’s famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: “I think, therefore I am.” Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what she terms cosmopolity.
The Accommodated Animal
The Accommodated Animal
年:
2013
出版社:
University of Chicago Press
语言:
english
页:
304
ISBN 10:
0226924181
ISBN 13:
9780226924182
文件:
PDF, 3.02 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013