Shapinskaya Ekaterina Nikolaevna,
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor,
Russian State University of Physical Education,
Sport, Youth and Tourism.
e-mail: reenash@mail.ru

The Animal Image in Cultural Texts

Absrtract. The article contains the analysis of animal images in literary and screen cultural texts which are formed on the basis of the ideas on animals, formed in Western culture with its accent on power (knowledge) of the subject (author, in our case) and reflecting the dichotomy of Nature and Culture. The article traces the historical development of otherness of the animal as the representative of the world of nature in relation to man, as well as the changes in the politics of representation of animals in cultural texts, from anthropomorphization to acceptance of animal’s own life world. Different types of attitude towards animals are analyzed on the basis of fiction-and-cinema-related examples.

Keywords. Nature, culture, the other, representation, deconstruction, communication space.

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