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The accommodated animal : cosmopolity in Shakespearean locales /
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastifss, and hell-hounds. But he used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the 16th century, when the word was rarely used. As Laurie Shannon reveals in this book, the animal-human divide first came...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2013.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastifss, and hell-hounds. But he used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the 16th century, when the word was rarely used. As Laurie Shannon reveals in this book, the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the 17th century, with Descartes's famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: 'I think, therefore I am'. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226924182 0226924181 9781283833714 1283833719 |