Environmental theory I love you. Afternoon today spent exploring the natural world and blurring of animal/human in Angela Carter's collection of stories, The Bloody Chamber. Current favourite: #The Company of Wolves. Challenging the anthropocentric view of the natural world by celebrating moments where the animal exists in the text its own right and is not referenced to the human. Like 'they cluster... round your smell of meat'. V good. But 'the wolf... he's as cunning...' V bad - too human! How can we say wolves are cunning? Human characteristic! And is derogatory, to boot.
A level Study guide to #Ecocriticism in the pipeline! Note to self: keep publishers happy: keep writing...
Ali x
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