Animal Alterity
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Animal Alterity and Anthropomorphism in ‘Lamb’ and ‘Being a Beast’.
This essay explores animal alterity and anthropomorphism in Charles Foster’s Being a Beast and the 2021 film, Lamb. ‘Alterity’ can be defined as the otherness or difference that animals have when compared to humans,[1] whilst anthropomorphism is “ascribing any human attribute to something other than man”.[2] Both terms feature prominently in animal writing, and are… Continue reading
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Recent English graduate of Loughborough University, passionate about film and literature. On this site, I post my academic essays and related writing.
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