Animal Literary Criticism

A Schematic Typology of Animal Representations

by Greg Garrard

The outline of a revised chapter for the second edition of my 'Ecocriticism' book.

Animal studies theorists and scientists have written a great deal on the question of anthropomorphism and related... more Animal studies theorists and scientists have written a great deal on the question of anthropomorphism and related topics, but there seems to be no agreement about terminology. In this draft outline, I seek to provide a simple typology of animal representations to help students. I'd be grateful for comments, especially: types of animal representation I've missed out; the location of any existing typology; and examples of the rarer types from literature or science (especially what I've called 'allomorphism'). Please email my Bath Spa account, rather than academia.