Animal Perception and Literary Language

• Main Author: Wesling, Donald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Ethics.; Cognitive psychology.; Literary Theory.; Cognitive Psychology.

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 quest...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Imbroglios of Humans and Nonhumans
• Part II: Perception, Cognition, Writing
• Part III: Attributes of Animalist Thinking
• Part IV: Animalist Thinking From Lucretius to Temple Grandin
• Part V: Perception and Expectation in Literature.