On Animality and Humanity in Literature after the “Darwinian Turn”

• Authors: Loba Mirosław
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The question of animality haunts the nineteenth and twentieth century literature. Animals appear not only as an allegoric representation but as a reference which troubles the border between humanity and animality. The aim of this paper is to consider how the Darwinian turn has modified the status of animality in modern narratives (the animal seen as an external object before the romantic turn, animal as an internal object). The question of animality as a part of human experience will be analysed on the basis of literary texts (Flaubert and Gombrowicz).

Keywords

EN

status of animality; humanity; Darwinian Turn; 19th/20th century literature; modern narrative; Flaubert; Gombrowicz

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 209-218

Contributors

author

Loba Mirosław

• University of Poznań