The Semiotics of Animal Representations: Rodopi confirms

Upon arrival in Sydney I received the message that the series editors of Rodopi's Nature, Culture and Literature (Hubert van den Berg (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan), Axel Goodbody (University of Bath) and Marcel Wissenburg (Radboud University Nijmegen)) have accepted our book proposal The Semiotics of Animal Representations (edited by Kadri Tüür and myself) for inclusion in the book series.

We have written to the contributors that "[i]n order to facilitate the cohesion and intertextuality of the book, we would like to propose that all contributors in addition [to full-length papers, due May 31st] send us a draft of their papers (including reference list) by March 25th." These will be distributed to the other contributors.

Below is the content list of the book.

Table of contents

1. Kadri Tüür (University of Tartu – Estonia) and Morten Tønnessen (University of Tartu – Estonia)

Introduction

2. Wendy Wheeler (London Metropolitan University – UK)

Captivation and ecstasy: Animal immersion and human enchantment

3. Onno Oerlemans (Hamilton College – USA)

The semiotics of bird poems

4. W. John Coletta (University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point – USA)

Evolutionary bodies of knowledge; Or, the evolutionary phenomenology of J. J. Audubon, Georges Bataille, Theodore Roethke, and Octavia Butler

5. Louise Westling (University of Oregon – USA)

The zoosemiotics of sheep herding with dogs

6. Maki Eguchi (University of Tsukuba – Japan)

Representation of sheep in modern Japanese literature: From Natsume Sōseki to Murakami Haruki

7. Adam Dodd (University of Oslo – Norway)

Entomological rhetoric and the fabrication of the insect world

8. Kadri Tüür (University of Tartu – Estonia)

Like a fish out of water: Literary representations of fish

9. Sandra Grötsch (University of Oulu – Finland)

Animal representation and attitudes of humans toward non-humans in fantasy literature

10. Taija Kaarlenkaski (University of Eastern Finland – Finland)

Communicating with the cow: Human-animal interaction in written narratives

11. Christos Lynteris (University of St. Andrews – UK)

Speaking marmots, deaf hunters: Animal-human semiotic breakdown as the cause of the Manchurian pneumonic plague of 1910-11

12. Graham Huggan (University of Leeds – UK)

Attenborough, colonialism and the British tradition of nature documentary

13. Larissa Budde (University of Siegen – Germany)

The semiotics of insects and the hive in popular culture

14. David Rothenberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology – USA)

Animal music, animal aesthetics

15. Ralph R. Acampora (Hofstra University – USA)

The (proto-)ethical significance of semiosis: When and how does one become somebody who matters?

Index

References