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Literary Animal Agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Susan McHugh
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Literary animal studies started for me when the question of animal agency arose in a survey-course discussion of a short, forgettable William Wordsworth poem titled “Nutting.” A shy undergraduate, I hesitantly volunteered an interpretation of the text as reflecting the squirrel's thoughts on the subject of seasonal change.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 124 , Issue 2 , March 2009 , pp. 487 - 495
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2009

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