Talking Animals: Explorations in an Indian Literary Genre Explorations in an Indian Literary Genre
Animals are certainly good to think (bonnes a penser), as famously noted by Claude Levi-Strauss, but from the dawn of literature humans have also given them voices so that they can participate vicariously in an anthropomorphized animal linguistic and social world paralleling the human, giving rise t...
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Equinox
2013
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2013, Volume: 7, Issue: 1/3, Pages: 14-26 |
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animal fables
B Pañcatantra B Sanskrit literature B religion and nature B talking animals |
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