Table of contents
1. Kadri Tüür (University of Tartu – Estonia) and Morten Tønnessen (University of Tartu – Estonia)
Introduction
2. Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University – UK)
Captivation and ecstasy: Animal immersion and human enchantment
3. Onno Oerlemans (Hamilton College – USA)
The semiotics of bird poems
4. W. John Coletta (University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point – USA)
Evolutionary bodies of knowledge; Or, the evolutionary phenomenology of J. J. Audubon, Georges Bataille, Theodore Roethke, and Octavia Butler
5. Louise Westling (University of Oregon – USA)
The zoosemiotics of sheep herding with dogs
6. Maki Eguchi (University of Tsukuba – Japan)
Representation of sheep in modern Japanese literature: From Natsume Sōseki to Murakami Haruki
7. Adam Dodd (University of Oslo – Norway)
Entomological rhetoric and the fabrication of the insect world
8. Kadri Tüür (University of Tartu – Estonia)
Like a fish out of water: Literary representations of fish
9. Sandra Grötsch (University of Oulu – Finland)
Animal representation and attitudes of humans toward non-humans in fantasy literature
10. Taija Kaarlenkaski (University of Eastern Finland – Finland)
Communicating with the cow: Human-animal interaction in written narratives
11. Christos Lynteris (University of St. Andrews – UK)
Speaking marmots, deaf hunters: Animal-human semiotic breakdown as the cause of the Manchurian pneumonic plague of 1910-11
12. Graham Huggan (University of Leeds – UK)
Attenborough, colonialism and the British tradition of nature documentary
13. Larissa Budde (University of Siegen – Germany)
The semiotics of insects and the hive in popular culture
14. David Rothenberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology – USA)
Animal music, animal aesthetics
15. Ralph R. Acampora (Hofstra University – USA)
The (proto-)ethical significance of semiosis: When and how does one become somebody who matters?
Index
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