Author:
Marjetka Golež Kaučič
Year:
2023
The book provocatively titled 'Man is the Most Dangerous Beast of All', with the subheading 'Animal Studies in Folklore, Literature and Culture', attempts to find an intersection between classical and contemporary animal studies in all three spheres of human creativity and life. It is not focused on man, but on the animal in new paradigms of the world – the new ontological paradigm and the animal turn. In both folklore and literature, focus is on those representations of animals that are illuminated by the analytical beam directed towards the centre of individual perspectives on animals The book is divided into three thematic parts. The 18 chapters cover zoofolkloristic (folk songs and narrative), zooliterary and zoocinematic works, but also address heritage, traditional cultural practices and issues of animal culture, folklore, animal existence and creativity, animal death and mourning. The monograph, with its innovative multidisciplinary approaches, represents the possibility of creating different scientific perspectives regarding the relationships between humans, animals and nature, and establishing a new view of ecological and transspecies social justice through folklore, literature and culture.
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Publishing House:
Založba ZRC
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ISBN
978-961-05-0792-5
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Year
2023
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Specifications
hardback 17 × 24 cm 544 pages
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