Animals in Allegory
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2026
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Abstract This chapter examines the complexity of animals in texts that have traditionally been read as allegories about human affairs (e.g. the Aesopian beast fable and Orwell’s Animal Farm). I argue that what might seem like a simple allegorical formula of animals standing in for humans is complicated by the fact that humans are themselves animals and are often wilfully blind about this fact. I survey examples from Aesop, Chaucer, Dryden, Coleridge, Melville, Orwell, and others. I find that allegory is a choice made by both author and reader, a means by which we explore our own animality and allow animals to enter the literary realm.
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| Authors | Onno Oerlemans |
| Journal | Oxford University Press eBooks |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894359.013.0032
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