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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
2019
327 Pages
ISBN 978-3-030-04968-3
Palgrave Studies in Animals and LiteratureAnimal perception and literary language
Donald Wesling
Animal Perception and Literary Language shows that the perceptual content of reading and writing derives from our embodied minds. Donald Wesling considers how humans, evolved from animals, have learned to code perception of movement into sentences and scenes. The book first specifies terms and questions in animal philosophy and surveys recent work on perception, then describes attributes of multispecies thinking and defines a tradition of writers in this lineage. Finally, the text concludes with literature coming into full focus in twelvecase studies of varied readings. Overall, Wesling's book offers not a new method of literary criticism, but a reveal of what we all do with perceptual content when we read.
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Wesling, D. (2019). Animal perception and literary language, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
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