Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Animal Comparisons in Shakespeare’s Plays
The assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the re-birth of man, was also the birth of...
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press
2017-12-01
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Series: | Linguaculture |
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Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lincu.2017.2017.issue-2/lincu-2017-0022/lincu-2017-0022.xml?format=INT |