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Author Wagschal, Steven, 1967- author.

Title Minding animals in the Old and New Worlds : a cognitive historical analysis / Steven Wagschal.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Toronto Iberic ; 36
Toronto Iberic ; 36.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Minding animals with anthropomorphism -- Deploying the animal in medieval miracles, bestiaries, and fables -- Exploiting the animal through hunting and husbandry -- Describing the animal in New World habitats -- Embodying animals : Cervantes and animal cognition -- Epilogue: Minding animals after Cervantes.
Summary Relying on current research in cognitive science and the philosophy of animal cognition, Minding Animals in the Old and New Worlds explores how humans have understood non-human animals in the Iberian world, from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern period.
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Subject Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Anthropomorphism in literature.
Animals -- Symbolic aspects.
Animal psychology.
Human-animal relationships.
Spanish literature -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
Portuguese literature -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
Latin American literature -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Animal psychology.
Animals in literature.
Animals -- Symbolic aspects.
Anthropomorphism in literature.
Human-animal relationships.
Literature, Modern.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Indexed Term American.
Iberian.
Spanish.
animal cognition.
animal studies.
anthropomorphism.
cognitive historicism.
cognitive science.
early modern.
habitat.
medieval.
mode of interaction.
Genre/Form Electonic books.
Electonic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Wagschal, Steven, 1967- Minding animals in the Old and New Worlds. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2018] 1487503326 (OCoLC)1005893008
ISBN 9781487517700 (electronic bk.)
148751770X (electronic bk.)
1487503326
9781487503321