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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"" Animal Metaphor"”.
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"Wood Leoun" . . . "Crueel Tigre": Animal Imagery and Metaphor in "The Knight's Tale"
<p>The people of the Middle Ages believed animals were disconnected from themselves in terms of ability to reason and ability to resist passions. Humans and animals were created by God, but he bestowed man with a soul and the ability to resist earthly delights. When men were described in terms of …
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Hunting Down Animal Verbs
… change, namely word-formation of verbs from animal nouns by zero-derivation, in the process of which such nouns as, for example, dog, horse, or beaver change their usage and meaning to produce animal verbs: to dog ‘to follow someone persistently and with a malicious intent’, to horse …
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Toward a Becoming Encounter: Arts-Based Research, Representation and Animal-Human Relations
… concepts from Deleuze and Guattari’s Becoming-animal and Buber’s I-Thou Encounters to create a conceptual metaphor that I call A Becoming Encounter. Through an arts-based methodology, the production and examination of several art objects (my own and others), and the ways in which they relate to …
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Born free and equal?: on the ethical consistency of animal equality
… clear notions of equality and incorporates an animal ethic. The first part is more meta-ethical in nature, reflecting on notions such as moral intuitions, universalism, consistency and coherence. It demonstrates that moral illusions might exist and offers a method to discover such moral …
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The Image of the Body in the Works of Frederick Sommer.
… <p>Sommer’s revisioning of the body—earth, animal, and human—characterized his life’s work, informed his most striking imagery, and enabled the realization of his aesthetic achievement. The centrality of the body throughout Sommer’s oeuvre, as primary visual material and organizational …
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Linguistics peculiarities of contemporary feline narrative
… point of view in textual narratives. Non-human/animalistic narration is barely studied, if it all, in Russian scientific discourse. In western linguonarratology tradition animal focalization is a "work-in-progress" concept that is studied by Genette and W. Nelles among other linguists. Animal …
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The lion in Chinese space and social life
… Ming (1368–1644), when the form and image of the animal became a living concept with little emphasis on its physical appearance. In other words, what perpetuated the significant role of the lion in Chinese space and social life was its conceptual image, not its physical shape. Two case studies, …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
… Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the first function of animal as trope is a pragmatic one, which …
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A classification of the semantic field good and evil in the vocabulary of English
… one area of vocabulary from Good and Evil - animal names used as names for people - and subjects this area to a detailed examination. The variety of animal names, and the range of people to whom they arc applied, arc discussed, and various statistics and comparisons arc drawn up. Also …
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A society of mind approach to cognition and metacognition in a cognitive architecture
… a control system using the "Society of Agents" metaphor. "Society of Agents" describes collective behaviours of simple and intelligent agents. "Society of Mind" is more than a collection of task-oriented and deliberative agents; it is a powerful concept for mind research and can benefit from the …
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The Function of Natural Imagery as Applied to Henchard in Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge
… Henchard under point one falls into three types: animal, fire and elemental imagery. Each type of image in this classification, moreover, forms an imagistic pattern or de- sign throughout the novel by mirroring Henchard’s rise and fall. The imagery under point two has mostly to do with the natural …
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Human anxieties, bovine solutions: Political subtexts of native cattle conservation in north-eastern Siberia
… argue that cattle are now coming to be used as a metaphor for the Sakha people themselves, to create a new and powerful ethnonationalist discourse. This focuses on a distinctive local breed, which under Soviet technocratic agriculture was considered primitive, hybridised with Russian breeds, and …
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"My dere chylde take hede how Trystram doo you tell": Hunting in English Literature, 1486-1603
… of one’s identity as a human, dominant over the animal kingdom. My dissertation examines the practice of the hunt in Tudor literature, expanding the chronological and generic focus of previous work. I argue that when early modern English authors cite hunting in their text, or structure a text …