The semiotics of animal representations / / edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen.

• Superior document: Nature, culture, and literature ; 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Tüür, Kadri.; Tønnessen, Morten, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Nature, Culture and Literature 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; The semiotics of animal representations Introduction /; The zoosemiotics of sheep herding with dogs /; Avian aesthetics: The representation of bird song from music to science /; Speaking marmots, deaf hunters: Animal–human semiotic breakdown as the imagined cause of the Manchurian pneumonic plague of 1910–11 /; Entomological rhetoric and the fabrication of the insect world /; “Back on the menu”: Humans, insectoid aliens, and the creation of ecophobia in science fiction /; Attenborough’s natural history films: The evolutionary epic /; Communicating with the cow: Human–animal interaction in written narratives /; The representation of sheep in modern Japanese literature from Natsume Sōseki to Murakami Haruki /; Animal representation in the Harry Potter series /; Like a fish out of water: Literary representations of fish /; Thought without concepts in Angels and Insects: A.S. Byatt as crypto-biosemiotician /; A Peircean semiotic model for describing the anti-Oedipal structure of “humanimal” selves /; The (proto-)ethical significance of semiosis: When and how does one become somebody who matters? /; List of contributors --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401210721
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Kadri Tüür and Morten Tønnessen.

The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often conflicting ideas about our relationships with nonhuman species. Whether the animal is seen as someone with whom we can relate and feel kinship or conceived of as the radical other, popular cultural descriptions of animals are often – if not always – indirect descriptions of ourselves. The contributions to this volume offer a unique panorama of academic and literary approaches, demonstrating that an analysis of cultural representations and constructions of animals is indispensable for a better understanding of the interface of human culture and the so-called animal world.