Human minds and animal stories : : how narratives make us care about other species / / Wojciech Małecki, Piotr Sorokowski, Bogusław Pawłowski, and Marcin Cieński.
The power of stories to raise our concern for animals has been postulated throughout history by countless scholars, activists, and writers, including such greats as Thomas Hardy and Leo Tolstoy. This is the first book to investigate that power and explain the psychological and cultural mechanisms be...
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| Superior document: | Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1 ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (201 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Texts, statistics, and deception: on our investigative method
- A monkey, a book, and Facebook, or how to catch a story in the act
- Does it matter if it is true? on slaughterhouses, fiction, and non-fiction
- Does it matter how it is told? on species, stylistics, and voices
- Does it matter who it is about? on chimpanzees, lizards, and other main characters
- How does it work? from readerly pleasure to animal cruelty
- How long will it work? a short chapter on attitudinal impact over time
- Conclusions, speculations, and prospects
- Appendices.