Poetry and Animals
26INTRODUCTION encounter and perhaps understand another nonhuman being—so pow- erful? Part of my argument is that the self-cons ...
1 THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY From Chaucer to Gray I n referring to the special power of poetry to mediate animal pres- ence to human ...
28THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY offensive not just to those who wish to preserve some sense of the dis- tinctive power of human being ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY29 that there came to be an easy and obvious distinction between the actual animals and their representat ...
30THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY as an actual image in art or film) still relies to some degree on an aware- ness of the animal and its ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY31 of an uncrossable boundary between signifier and signified (i.e., between the animal and what it means ...
32THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY general, and species types in particular, might stand for qualities we share with them. It is worth re ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY33 which Barry Lopez argues we also see in the animal stories of aborigi- nal cultures, is that the caref ...
34THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY status) and then killing and eating him. While the poem’s story makes the wolf an explicit tyrant, the ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY35 allegory comes in no small part through the association of the wolf with actual wolves, which in medie ...
36THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY also reflects something of the actual animals involved and human responses (such as fear and pity) to ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY37 physical details no doubt suggest a comic allegory of royal finery, but they also suggest the attentio ...
38THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY dehumanizes) Chauntecleer and his worldview, leaving him strangely animal. That a rooster might dream ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY39 For he hadde founde a corn lay in the yerd. Real he was, he was namoore aferd; He fethered Pertelote t ...
40THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY urges. Though on the one hand this passage is a kind of burlesque, on the other it is high comedy—cele ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY41 can signify animals because they share common ground, which in the tale is literally the farm and figu ...
42THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY Chaucer’s “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” has been about animalizing as much as anthropomorphizing from the ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY43 One might speculate that however strongly human culture (particu- larly the Judeo-Christian tradition) ...
44THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY The allegory here is explicit: the hunt represents the courtship that is nearly always the topic of Re ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY45 not already owned. Spenser’s deer is free too in that she returns of her own will, and she is not kill ...
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