Fallen Animals - Art, Religion, Literature

The book examines the interpretations, functions and interactions of the Fall - physical, moral, artistic and otherwise - as represented through animals, or through human-animal interactions, in various religious contexts, art, and literature.

List of contents

Introduction - All Creatures High and Low: Seeing Fallen Animals in Religion and the Arts
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
Opening Note - The Snake in the Garden of Eden
Robert A. Segal
"To see what he would name them...": Naming and Domination in a Fallen World
Brian Brock
From Ursus Diabolus to Ursus Ex Machina: The Ambivalent Legacy of Biblical Bears in Christian Art and Hagiography
Eric Ziolkowski
Jonah and His Fish: The Monstrification of God's Servant in Early Jewish and Christian Reception History
Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
"Who Has the Most Faults?": Animal Sinners in a Late Byzantine Poem
Kirsty Stewart
"The Author Laughed in a Cat's Voice": Aesop and Humanism in William Baldwin's Beware the Cat
Rachel Stenner
Do Monkeys Know about Their Origin?: Narratives of Animals Emerging During Fall in an Islamic Context
Constantin Canavas
Epilogue - We Fall into the Humanimal: A conversation between Kate Walters and Penny Florence
Kate Walters and Penny Florence

About the author

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche is lecturer in religious studies and Islam at the University of Aberdeen.

Summary

The book examines the interpretations, functions and interactions of the Fall — physical, moral, artistic and otherwise — as represented through animals, or through human–animal interactions, in various religious contexts, art, and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Zohar Hadromi-Allouche
• Assisted by: Zohar Hadromi-Allouche (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781498543965
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4396-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)