Poetry and Animals

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  1. THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY199

  2. Ted Hughes, Collected Poems, ed. Paul Keegan (New York: Farrar, Straus and Gir-
    oux, 2003), 19.

  3. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, 53.

  4. Onno Oerlemans, “A Defense of Anthropomorphism: A Comparison of Coetzee and
    Gowdy,” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 40, no. 1
    (2007): 181–96.

  5. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, 23, 33.

  6. Ibid., 53.

  7. As Carol Kaesuk Yoon argues, biology is now trying to define taxonomic patterns
    strictly through the evolutionary relatedness of species, using the statistical analysis
    of DNA similarities to match ancestral histories. Yoon, Naming Nature: The Clash
    Between Instinct and Science (New York: Norton, 2009), 239–68.

  8. Donna Haraway, When Species Meet (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
    2008), 72.

  9. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, 54.

  10. Henry David Thoreau, Wal d e n, ed. Bill McKibben (Boston: Beacon, 1997), 212.

  11. THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY

  12. J. M. Coetzee, The Lives of Animals, ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton Uni-
    versity Press, 1999), 50.

  13. Randy Malamud, Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
    2003), 31.

  14. Lawrence Buell, The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the
    Formation of American Culture (Cambridge: Belknap, 1995); Leonard Scigaj, Sustain-
    able Poetry: Four American Ecopoets (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,
    1999).

  15. Joyce E. Salisbury, “Human Animals of Medieval Fables,” in Animals in the Middle
    Ages, ed. Nona Flores (New York: Garland, 1996), 49.

  16. Nona Flores, introduction to Animals in the Middle Ages, ix–x vi.

  17. Howard Needler, “The Animal Fable Among Other Medieval Literary Genres,” New
    Literary History 22, no. 2 (1991): 426.

  18. Howard Bloch, “The Wolf in the Dog: Animal Fables and State Formation,” Differ-
    ences 15 (2004): 71.

  19. Edward Wheatley, Mastering Aesop: Medieval Education, Chaucer and His Follow-
    ers, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2000), 6.

  20. Frank Palmeri, “The Autocritique of Fables,” in Humans and Other Animals in Eigh-
    teenth Century British Culture, ed. Frank Palmeri (London: Ashgate, 2006), 84, 86.

  21. Angus Fletcher, Allegory: The Theory of the Symbolic Mode (Ithaca: Cornell Univer-
    sity Press, 1964), 2.

  22. Quoted in Fletcher, Allegory, 17.

  23. Fletcher, Allegory, 22.

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