A defense of anthropomorphism: comparing Coetzee and Gowdy.(J.M. Coetzee, Barbara Gowdy)(Critical essay)

From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

A comparison of Coetzee's Disgrace and Gowdy's The White Bone reveals that while it is possible to generate sympathy for animal being while resisting describing animal sentience in human terms, anthropomorphism can be a valuable and sophisticated strategy for depicting animal minds.

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The gulf that separates Man Friday from Batouala may be paralleled by 
the gulf that will separate Kipling's wolves from their literary 
descendants two hundred years hence, and we shall have animals who are 
neither symbolic, nor little men disguised, nor as four-legged tables  ...

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