香料 发表于 2025-3-23 10:26:14

Book 2020ble embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquingthem. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth centur

运动性 发表于 2025-3-23 14:20:36

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键琴 发表于 2025-3-23 18:57:07

Introduction: Rats in the Box,eteenth-century fascination with Oriental and other non-European fables. The introduction outlines how these fables are not only the object of study of the book, but also themselves provide a new approach to thinking about the fable’s role and significance in the British Empire and the modern world.

Admonish 发表于 2025-3-24 00:05:49

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languid 发表于 2025-3-24 05:30:03

,‘Once upon a Time When Animals Spoke’: Theories of the Beast Fable,ypothetical space in which one could dream of human-animal kinship, and even the possibility of animal language. At the same time, it came to embody the borders and intersections between species, races and languages, as its theorists drew much of their material from the contact zones of the British Empire.

Ataxia 发表于 2025-3-24 10:19:53

Into the Chinese Boxes: The ,ese forest stories are connected with animal stories from other parts of the world through the Empire’s maritime activities. The ocean also emerges as a space of creaturely vulnerability and political resistance, in which a nonhuman storyteller challenges human domination over nature, which is pushing many species to the verge of extinction.

Obsequious 发表于 2025-3-24 12:51:45

,Animal Alphabets: Chesterton’s Dog, Browning’s Rats, Lear’s Blue Baboon,orld become master pipers who delight in manipulating animals as alphabets, while turning ourselves into alphabet animals driven by the music of modernity. In Edward Lear’s nonsense poems and alphabets, this chapter also finds the possibility of alternative animal alphabets which choose to dance to their own music.

HACK 发表于 2025-3-24 17:15:02

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浸软 发表于 2025-3-24 19:18:14

,Kangaroo Notebook: Abe’s Metatherian Journey,r. This chapter argues that the Metatherian kangaroo, which deviates from the Eutherian path of evolution, embodies the essence of the beast fable, in which the taken-for-granted European reality is suspended and subverted.

极小 发表于 2025-3-25 02:58:50

Fabling Cosmopolitanism: The Ark Esperanto,gli and Shere Khan through the real story of another Shere Khan, an Indian prince whose life was touched by the Esperanto movement, particularly through his friendship with the Irishman John Pollen, an ex-Indian Civil Servant and advocate of Esperanto.
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