| Kommentar |
Animals have formed part of our cultural history from time immemorial. The earliest folk tales have talking animals as their protagonists. This trend is unabated, as demonstrated by the example of the recent release of Kipling's The Jungle Book. Not only in children's stories do animals form the conduits of the narrative, they often enough take on the status of icons that can be depended on to fill in for many unfulfilled desires and dreams. On the other end of the scale we have 'real life' animals: the ones kept in captivity for the purposes of experimentation (laboratories), 'simple' pleasure (circuses, zoos), and mass consumption (meat production). Midway on the scale we find the wild animals whose cultural significance these days seems to be restricted to the 'hidden' lives that they lead, as captured on film by photographers and documentary film makers.
We'll be asking: What is it that connects us to animals, and why should we care?
Materials for study will be placed online |
| Bemerkung |
Sprechstunde: Mittwochs ab 18:00
Terminanfragen bitte an c.plach@mx.uni-saarland.de
Statt dieser Veranstaltung können Sie auch die Vorlesung von Frau Prof. Fellner ("Writings from North America's Many Cultures", Veranstaltungsnummer 104760) als Vorlesung des Gebiets "Transkulturelle Anglophone Studien" besuchen und verbuchen. |
