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FASTITOCALON Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern Vol. VI · 2016
FANTASTIC ANIMALS, ANIMALS IN THE FANTASTIC
Issue 1 & 2
Thomas Honegger and Fanfan Chen
Editors’ in Chief Preface 1
Oliver Bidlo, Thomas Honegger and Frank Weinreich
Fantastic Animals, Animals in the Fantastic: Introduction 3
ARTICLES
Friedhelm Schneidewind (Hemsbach, Germany)
Talking Animals as Literary Protagonists 5
Anja Höing (Osnabrück, Germany)
Negotiating Anthropomorphism in Talking Animal Stories— An Ecocritical Approach to Fantastic Animals 21
Steve Gronert Ellerhoff (Des Moines, USA)
The Rabbit Who Saw It All Coming: Western Concepts of Shamanism in Watership Down 33
Jenn Grunigen (Eugene, USA)
‘Queering the Fox’: A Reading of Four Works of Vulpine Mythpunk 43
Smadar Shiffman (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Kafka’s Fantastic Animals 59
Kristine Larsen (New Britain, USA)
“Mutant, Monster, Freak”: The Mythological World of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher Series 65
Amber J. Rose (Madison, USA)
ok þar er mér úlfsins ván, er ek eyrum sá. And I expect a wolf, when I see a wolf’s ears 79
Łukasz Neubauer (Koszalin, Poland)
The Eagle is not Coming: Some Remarks on the Absence of the News-Bearing Eagle in Peter Jackson’s Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings 99
Victoria Holtz Wodzak (La Crosse, USA)
On Pilgrimage Among Beasts: Narnia, and the Beasts Who Teach 109
Fanfan Chen (Shou Feng, Taiwan)
The Animal Imaginary of Fantastic Time and Narrative in Inuyasha 123
Daniel Lau and Sarah Schlüter (Berlin and Münster, Germany)
Anzû—Mesopotamia’s mythological thunderbird 139
Tziona Grossmark (Upper Galilee, Israel)
I saw a frog the size of the Fort of Hagronia (BT Baba Batra 73b)— Or How Big is an Elephant? 155
Timo Lothmann (Aachen, Germany)
The ravaging and hoard-guarding antagonist: A cognitive approach to dragon conceptualisations in Beowulf and selected writings of J.R.R. Tolkien 169
ABOUT THE AUTHORS AND EDITORS 185
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier