The group is structured around the research and study of the non-human animal in European and North American literature, as well as in different visual media (cinema, theatre, television, photography, painting, sculpture, etc.), with the aim of advancing in the field of (Critical) Animal Studies which, especially in the Anglo-Saxon sphere, have re-oriented both the philosophical conceptualisation of the animal and the interpretative mechanisms suggested by its aesthetic representation as otherness.
Taking as a starting point the most recent philosophical and scientific theories related to animal subjectivity (from studies of consciousness and sentience to the ethical consequences that derive in legislation and/or regulations on animal welfare, or the also derived principles of animal rights and animal liberation), the aim is to study and compare how the works of certain authors, artists and other types of creators can offer an aesthetic treatment that questions anthropocentric parameters, while responding to current concerns about animal nature. This largely revisionist treatment allows us to further explore the semiotics that intertwine the literary and visual cultures of different nations with the ethical conceptualisation of the animal as a subject-of-a-life that, beyond the more traditional and historically rooted allegorical systems to which it has been subjected, questions the conceptual and artistic boundaries between species, within the framework of the "animal turn" in the age of the anthropocene.
- To study animal representation in literature and in Western visual and audiovisual arts and media.
- Incorporate the most recent theories on animal ethics and consciousness in the interpretation of literary and artistic works.
- To compare the treatment of the animal and animality in the literary and visual cultures of different countries within the context of the Anthropocene.
- To review and offer alternative interpretations of the representation of the animal in works throughout history.
- Animal representation in literature
Study, analysis and reflection on the representation of the animal in contemporary Western literature (narrative, poetry, theatre).
- Representation of the animal in the plastic arts
Study, analysis and reflection on the representation of the animal in contemporary Western visual arts (painting, sculpture, drawing, architecture, photography, etc.).
- Representation of the animal in audiovisual media
Study, analysis and reflection on the representation of animals in the visual and audiovisual media (cinema, television, advertising, etc.).
- Ethics and animal representation
Study and analysis of the ethical implications intrinsic to or derived from the representation of the animal in Western literary and (audio)visual cultures.
- ALONSO RECARTE, CLAUDIA
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- Coordinador/a de Mobilitat
- LAJOINIE DOMINGUEZ, MARIA TERESA
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- RAMOS GAY, IGNACIO
- PDI-Catedratic/a d'Universitat
- Coordinador/a de Mobilitat
- Coordinador/a Curs
- VIVES-FERRANDIZ SANCHEZ, LUIS
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Coordinador/a de Mobilitat
Partners
- Margarita Carretero González - Universidad de Granada.
- Sofía Duarte - Universitat de València.
- Olimpia Mailat Gurghian - Universitat de València.
- Sara Martínez Guillén - Universitat de València.
- Nuria Máximo Bocanegra - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid).
- Brett Mills - Edge Hill University (United Kingdom).
- Paula Antuñano Llana - UVEG-Valencia.
- Estel Aguilar Miró.
- Beatriz Cimadevilla Alonso
Work team
- María Custodia Sánchez Luque - URJC-Madrid
Blasco Ibáñez Campus
Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 32
46010 València (Valencia)
- ALONSO RECARTE, CLAUDIA
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- Coordinador/a de Mobilitat
