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  1. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

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    "The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu"...

     

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  2. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

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    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781108552394
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    RVK Categories: EC 6579
    Subjects: Animals in literature; Fables / History and criticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Literature, Modern / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature, Modern / 20th century / History and criticism; Fabel; Naturwissenschaften
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 Seiten)
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  3. Fabelhaftes
    wenn Tiere sprechen ... sehen wir uns im Spiegel
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Böhm, Plauen/Vogtl.

    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3000096477
    RVK Categories: EC 6579
    Edition: 2., verb. Aufl., Computerfassung
    Scope: 72 S., Ill.
  4. Animal fables after Darwin
    literature, speciesism, and metaphor
    Author: Danta, Chris
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and... more

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu

     

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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781108552394
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: EC 6579
    Subjects: Animals in literature; Fables / History and criticism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Literature, Modern / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature, Modern / 20th century / History and criticism; Fabel; Naturwissenschaften
    Other subjects: Darwin, Charles / 1809-1882 / Influence
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 Seiten)
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    Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2018)

  5. Die Fabel im modernen Deutschunterricht
    Published: 1967
    Publisher:  Schöningh, Paderborn

    BBF | Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung in Berlin
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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    RVK Categories: EC 6575 ; EC 6579 ; GB 2978
    Series: Wort, Werk, Gestalt
    Subjects: Fabel; Deutschunterricht
    Scope: 79 S.