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(2019) Animal perception and literary language, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In Chapter 3, Donald Wesling explains four modes of thought that are shared by all eight of the example-figures that he brings forward in Chapter 4. These attributes of animalist thinking are: Creativity, or the idea that the senses continually bring in new materials for cognizing, feeling, and saying; Embodied Mind, or the idea that the body, as part of nature, participates in the showing of things; Dialogism, or the idea that ordinary thinking is a continual performance of the many betweens, including me-other, perceiver-perceived, feedback-calibration; and Amplification of Affect, or the premise that in living beings change is everything, and involves a series of interruptions, which are discontinuities in perceiving. Wesling concludes Chapter 3 by analyzing Annie Dillard's essay on being startled by a wild weasel.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04969-0_3
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Wesling, D. (2019). Attributes of animalist thinking, in Animal perception and literary language, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 89-129.
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