Literary Animals as Spiritual Catalysts: Totemic Animals in Poems by José Emilio Pacheco, Miren Agur Meabe, and Guadalupe Grande

As animal representations gain academic popularity, it is time to wonder whether they are connected to a spiritual factor, if there is any. This article starts from the concept of totemism in order to introduce totemic animals, whose role is to link the natural to the divine. Totemic animals take th...

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Main Author: Fernández, Jesús (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Common Ground Publishing 2020
In: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Year: 2020, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 77-88
Further subjects:B Literature
B Totemism
B Animal Studies
B Poetry
B Animal Spirituality
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