Autobiography of an animal pdf

Animal sanctity and animal sacrifice : how post-Darwinian fiction treats animal victims

Marian Scholtmeijer

1989

This dissertation analyses animal victims appearing in fiction written since 1859, the year Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species.

It assumes as a premise that the Darwinian idea of continuity between human and nonhuman animals has altered the fundamental character of cultural conceptions of animals. It assumes, further, that post-Darwinian culture recognizes the need to acknowledge the experiences of animals independent of the usefulness or significance animals have for humankind.

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Modern culture strives to understand the value life has for the animal itself. That effort is crucial to approaches to animal victims, because culture, which knows animals best in their role as victims, is itself founded upon human domination of nonhuman animals.

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