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Insects in Literature and the Arts - Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence (Editor), and Bouchet, Marie (Editor)
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This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint. The contributions illustrate the various responses to the insect world that have developed over centuries, concentrating upon the alien qualities of insects - a radical otherness that has provoked admiration and fear, or contributed to the debates over humans' superiority over animals, especially during the evolutionary theory ...

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Insects in Literature and the Arts 2014, Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Pieterlen

ISBN-13: 9782875742087

Paperback