Animal Languages in the Middle Ages - Representations of Interspecies Communication (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages. Uniting a diverse set of emerging and established scholars, Animal Languages questions the assumed medieval distinction between humans and other animals. The chapters point to the wealth of non-human communicative and discursive forms through which animals function both as vehicles for human meaning and as agents of their own, demonstrating the significance of human and non-human interaction in medieval texts, particularly for engaging with the Other. The book ultimately considers the ramifications of deconstructing the medieval anthropocentric view of language for the broader question of human singularity.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Alison Langdon
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-71896-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	3-319-71896-7
Barcode:	9783319718965

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